Definition of Factum

1. n. A man's own act and deed

Definition of Factum

1. Noun. (legal) Somebody's own act and deed. ¹

2. Noun. (engineering) The product. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Factum

1. in law, something done [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Factum

facts
facts on the ground
factsheet
factsheets
factual
factualism
factualisms
factualist
factualists
factualities
factuality
factually
factualness
factualnesses
factum (current term)
factums
facture
factures
facty
facula
faculae
facular
facultative
facultative aerobe
facultative anaerobe
facultative biped
facultative bipeds
facultative heterochromatin
facultative hyperopia

Literary usage of Factum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"(of the actio doli) ' in haec actione designan oportet cuius dolo factum sit, quamvis in metu non sit necesse ' Dig. 4. 3. 15. 3. Where to 'nihil dolo malo ..."

2. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"The like by an executor or administrator. w Non est factum, after craving oyer of bond and condition. (i) The like of an indenture. ..."

3. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"The action was in factum, and ran for and against heirs. It was wider than an action locati conducti, because no fault was necessary to found the action, ..."

4. An Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn, Edward E. Law, Henry Wheaton, Thomas Isaac Wharton (1857)
"Non est factum. There is not any general issue to an ... (3) Prior to the New Rules to support the plea of non est factum, the defendant might have given in ..."

5. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead (1886)
"Quite different was the course of procedure in the actiones in factum, whose number and varieties were practically unlimited, although for the most part ..."

6. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"A deed ,misread is void, and on non ett factum, the deft. ^-^v*^-' it was misread to him, for when the evidence proves either of ..."

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