Verdict

/ˈvɜː.dɪkt/ · noun

Meaning

(law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest..

Definitions by Sense

1. (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
2. An opinion or judgement.

Example Sentences

The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

When his body was retrieved, it was apparent that he had not raised his hands to cover his face. Had he suffered some sort of fit or seizure? The coroner’s verdict was accidental death.

The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] “We took this case to decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial – as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment – requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense,” Gorsuch wrote.

a “not out” verdict from the umpire

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• verdicts

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