VERDICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verdict mean? 

• VERDICT (noun)
  The noun VERDICT has 1 sense:

1. (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment

  Familiarity information: VERDICT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERDICT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

finding of fact; verdict

Hypernyms ("verdict" is a kind of...):

finding (the decision of a court on issues of fact or law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verdict"):

compromise verdict (a verdict resulting from improper compromises between jurors on material issues)

directed verdict (a verdict entered by the court in a jury trial without consideration by the jury)

false verdict (a manifestly unjust verdict; not true to the evidence)

general verdict (an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact)

partial verdict ((criminal law) a finding that the defendant is guilty of some charges but innocent of others)

special verdict (a verdict rendered on certain specific factual issues posed by the court without finding for one party or the other)

 Context examples 

Of course the verdict was an open one.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Martin waited with satisfaction for her verdict.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With the exception of the children, the whole family was gathered about the surgeon to hear his verdict.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She and Hans, without leaving their seats, brought in the jury's verdict of guilty.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the death of Sherlock Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under these circumstances the young man was instantly arrested, and a verdict of ‘wilful murder’ having been returned at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Practically suicide," was the doctor's verdict.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was flaming from the fresh reading of the ripest thought he had expressed, and her verdict stunned him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, brought in a verdict of ‘suicide.’ But I, who knew how he winced from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself that he had gone out of his way to meet it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had, as it appears, been returning from Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in bringing in a verdict of ‘death from accidental causes.’ Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of murder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)