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fact 1. Law an actual event, happening, etc., as distinguished from its legal consequences. Questions of fact are decided by the jury, questions of law by the court or judge 2. Philosophy a proposition that may be either true or false, as contrasted with an evaluative statement 3. after (or before) the fact Criminal law after (or before) the commission of the offence
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Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact. If, therefore, the re-examination of a fact once determined by a jury, should in any case be admitted under the proposed Constitution, it may be so regulated as to be done by a second jury, either by remanding the cause to the court below for a second trial of the fact, or by directing an issue immediately out of the Supreme Court. The disappointment was made all the more severe by reason of the fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from school mornings and afternoons. |
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