Verdict
Formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters submitted to it by the judge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the legal finding of fact. For other uses, see Verdict (disambiguation).
In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge.[1] In a bench trial, the judge's decision near the end of the trial is simply referred to as a finding.[2] In England and Wales, a coroner's findings used to be called verdicts but are, since 2009, called conclusions (see Coroner § Inquest conclusions (previously called verdicts)).
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