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"Section F, G and H"


I do not grant the fact.
De
Foe.


This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is
not true.
Roger Long.


&fist; The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in
contrast with law; as, attorney at law, and attorney in
fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is
also a grand distinction between law and fact with
reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the
latter generally determining the fact, the former the
law. Burrill Bouvier.

[1913 Webster]


Accessary before, or after,
the fact. See under Accessary. --
Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity;
used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative;
as, a matter-of-fact narration.


Syn. -- Act; deed; performance; event; incident;
occurrence; circumstance.


Fac"tion (făk"shŭn), n.
[L. factio a doing, a company of persons acting together, a
faction: cf.


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