Legal Definition and Related Resources of Finding
Meaning of Finding
decision of a judge or jury on issues of fact. It is designed to facilitate review by disclosing the grounds on which the judgment rests .
Finding Alternative Definition
The result of the deliberations of a jury or a court. 1 Day (Conn.) 238; 2 Day (Conn.) 12. The “findings of fact” of a judge, on which his decision is based,
Synonyms of Finding
noun
- ascertainment
- award
- conclusion
- decision
- decree
- determination
- judgment
- judicial conclusion
- judicial outcome
- judicial verdict
- opinion
- opinion of the court
- order
- outcome
- precedent
- pronouncement
- report
- resolution
- resolution of the court
- result
- ruling
- sentence
- solution
- verdict
- verdict afterjudicial inquiry
- Associated Concepts: administrative finding
- erroneous finding
- evidence sufficient to support a finding
- evidentiary finding
- finding of a referee
- finding of fact
- finding of guilt
- general findings
- implied findings
- inconsistent findings
- special finding
- supplemental findings
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Capricious, Concur, Concurrent, Conviction, Interpretation, Presumption.
Translate Finding from English to Spanish
Translation of Finding , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Fallo and other legal terms is available here.
- Fallo
- Decisión
- Hallazgo
- Legal English Translation
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Finding
(You may find finding at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
c. 1300, “act of discovering” (by chance or after searching; also an instance of this); verbal noun from find (verb). From c. 1400 as “what the mind discovers; knowledge attained by human effort” (as distinct from revelation or authority). Late 14c. as “act of sustaining, supporting, or providing the necessities of life; that which is provided by way of sustenance and support.” Legal sense “proceedings leading to a verdict in an inquisition, etc.,” is from mid-15c. Old English finding meant “invention.” Related: Findings.
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