Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a thing done; an act or a deed; anything stated and made certain; the statement of a case for the court.
- noun In mathematics, the result of a multiplication; a product.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A man's own act and deed.
- noun (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain.
- noun (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
- noun (Mach.) The product. See
Facient , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law Somebody's own
act anddeed . - noun engineering The
product , inmultiplication .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Economist has concerns about "the ethics and realpolitik of assassination," yet the lack of any significant international criticism of the operation against OBL's compound flies in the face of any legalistic or moralistic concerns and demonstrates that we are de facto conforming to the principle of verum esse ipsum factum Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744.
Amir Madani: How to Bring Jihadist Fundamentalism to Its End Amir Madani 2011
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The Economist has concerns about "the ethics and realpolitik of assassination," yet the lack of any significant international criticism of the operation against OBL's compound flies in the face of any legalistic or moralistic concerns and demonstrates that we are de facto conforming to the principle of verum esse ipsum factum Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744.
Amir Madani: How to Bring Jihadist Fundamentalism to Its End Amir Madani 2011
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The Conservative government late yesterday presented its factum in court defending its decision to keep Abousfian Abdelrazik in perpetual exile in Khartoum.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The Economist has concerns about "the ethics and realpolitik of assassination," yet the lack of any significant international criticism of the operation against OBL's compound flies in the face of any legalistic or moralistic concerns and demonstrates that we are de facto conforming to the principle of verum esse ipsum factum Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744.
Amir Madani: How to Bring Jihadist Fundamentalism to Its End Amir Madani 2011
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But my favorite case ever involves the distinction between fraud in the factum and fraud in the inducement.
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In fact, at the end of his book he has four appendices that provide examples of a factum, two memoranda, and some exams.
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At the end of the Mass, the Last Gospel is omitted, and consequently the genuflection towards the Sacrament at “Et Verbum caro factum est.”
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At the very end of the Mass, at the genuflection in the Last Gospel, the Priest turns towards the Sacrament as he says “Et Verbum caro factum est.”
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Fact is the participle of a verb: factum est, "that which has the property of having been done or accomplished."
April 11th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Held, that constitutes fraud in the factum and sexual assault.
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