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designed to find information or ascertain facts as a fact finding committee...
Fault finding
The act of finding fault or blaming used derogatively Also Adj...
Distributive finding of the issue
Distributive finding of the issue. The jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears to them to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases in which an issue may be found distributively; i.e., in part for plaintiff and in part for defendant. Thus, in an action for goods sold and work done, if the defendant pleaded that he never was indebted, on which issue was joined a verdict might be found for the plaintiff as to the goods, and for the defendant as to the work...
Special finding
Special finding, of a jury, and amendment to variance. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXVIII., r. 1, and Ord. XXXVI., r. 41...
find
find found find·ing vt 1 : to come upon accidentally or through effort [found a valuable antique in the old desk] [found a buyer for the property] 2 : to make a judicial determination regarding [found the testimony not credible] [found the defendant guilty] compare decide, hold vi : to make a judicial determination [the jury found in favor of the plaintiff] ...
master
master 1 : an individual or entity (as a corporation) having control or authority over another: as a : the owner of a slave b : employer compare servant c : principal 2 : an officer of the court appointed (as under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 53) to assist a judge in a particular case by hearing and reporting on the case, sometimes by making findings of fact and conclusions of law, and by performing various related functions NOTE: Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a master may be a magistrate or else may be a person with some special expertise in the matter. The word master as used in the Federal Rules encompasses a referee, an auditor, an examiner, and an assessor. If the master makes findings of fact, they are reviewable by the court except when the case is not to be tried to the jury and the findings are clearly erroneous, or when the parties have stipulated that the master's findings are to be final. adj : being the principal or controlling one : governing...
verdict
verdict [alteration (partly conformed to Medieval Latin veredictum) of Anglo-French veirdit statement, finding, verdict, from Old French veir true (from Latin verus) + dit saying, from Latin dictum] 1 : the usually unanimous finding or decision of a jury on one or more matters (as counts of an indictment or complaint) submitted to it in trial that ordinarily in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare judgment compromise verdict : a verdict produced not by sincere unanimous agreement on guilt or liability but by an improper surrender of individual convictions ;specif : an impermissible verdict by a jury that is unable to agree on liability and so compromises on an award of damages that is less than what it should be if the plaintiff has a right of recovery free from any doubts di·rect·ed verdict 1 : a verdict granted by the court when the party with the burden of proof has failed to present sufficie...
Open verdict
A verdict on a preliminary investigation finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause...
Quadrature
The act of squaring the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure as the quadrature of a circle the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line as by a curve two ordinates and the axis of abscissas...
Action
Action, conduct, something done; also the form prescribed by Law for the recovery of one's due, or the lawful demand of one's right. Bracton (Bk. 3, cap. 1) defines it:-Actio nihil aliud est quam jus prosequendi in judicio quod alicui debetur.-(An action is nothing else than the right of suing in a court of justice for that which is due to some one.) Actions are divided into criminal and civil: criminal actions are more properly called prosecutions, and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are properly criminal actions. There were formerly three classes of actions in England: personal actions, in which the plaintiff sought to recover a debt or damages from the defendant; real actions, in which he sought to establish his title to land or other hereditaments; mixed actions, in which he sought only to establish his right to possession of land. All forms of action are now abolished, but there still inevitably remains the distinction between actions in personam brou...
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