lie upon

English

Verb

(archaic) To be incumbent upon; to be up to (someone); to be obligatory upon.
It lies upon the prosecution to prove that the defendant is guilty.
To lie on.
She was lying upon the bed.
(obsolete) To importune; to urge; to solicit.
The judge in the parable granted the widow's suit merely because she lay upon him, and was troublesome to him.

References

“lie upon” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1836)

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