Legal Definition and Related Resources of Agreed Statement Of Facts

A statement of facts, agreed on by both parties as true and correct , submitted in writing to the court for a ruling on the law of the case flowing from such agreed facts.

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What does Agreed statement of facts mean in American Law?

The definition of Agreed statement of facts in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A process for expediting the judicial decision of a legal controversy when the parties are not in any material dispute about the facts, but disagree only as to the legal significance thereof. The parties may get together, after pleading is completed, and file with the court a jointly agreed statement of all facts relevant to the court’s decision, and on the basis of which the court should decide the case. In this process the parties may, better to frame the issue in the determination of which they are interested, even agree to imaginary facts, though this process ought not go so far as to constitute a feigned case. And, strictly speaking, the parties cannot by agreement confer jurisdiction upon a court which would not have it on the real facts. (There is a similar process in some courts whereby even pleadings can be dispensed with, and decision may be had upon an “agreed case.”)

It should be noted that there are other procedural techniques for achieving the same or similar result-the avoidance of having to prove facts at a trial-e.g., demurrer (and motions in the nature thereof), summary judgment motions (usually after discovery), and stipulation of facts.