factumn.

1641 G. Gillespie Assertion Govt. Church Scotl. ii. vii. 170 There were two severall things in those civill causes, the Ius and the factum.

1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 230 Bishops must judge of the Laity, not the Laity of Bishops. That's for the jus; and for the factum it was the shutting up of the Councell.

1822 J. Haggard Rep. Consistory Court 1 218 He asserts..the factum of the marriage, and its validity .

1839 Judgment delivered by Sir H. Jenner in Prerogative Court (ed. 2) 71 As there are no witnesses to this codicil, the factum of this instrument has nothing to depend upon but the evidence of hand-writing.

1844 B. C. Howard Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 635 But what power has a probate court to prove a will which is not produced. They cannot set it up and admit it as a factum.

1854 Rep. Supreme Court N.-Carolina 1 363 The Court..told the jury that, in order to make a deed void at law, ‘there must be evidence that it was obtained by duress, or that there was fraud in the factum; that is, that the party did not, at the time of its execution, intend it to be his deed’.

1916 R. Martinez Let. 4 Apr. in A. Alvarez Monroe Doctr. (1924) ii. i. 305 The last one [sc. act of the American Government] is a factum which has been elaborated in silence and which has just been announced.

1935 G. Glenn Law governing Liquidation ix. 158 No creditor signatory should be allowed to withdraw by virtue of any mistake short of actual mistake in the factum.

1957 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 892 It is no longer possible to keep the question of the factum of residence separate from the question of animus.

2010 D. C. Brody & J. R. Acker Criminal Law (ed. 2) vii. 270 Fraud in the factum has occurred because the woman thought she was consenting to ‘the fact’ of having sexual intercourse with her husband.

1648 S. Hartlib Further Discov. 12 The Factum or circumstantiall Description of their Case may be sent unto the Office.

1687 tr. J. Spon Hist. Geneva iii. 186 The Baron of Greisy the Ambassador from Savoy alledged his reasons: he published a Factum, which was answered by another.

1738 Bayle's Hist. & Crit. Dict. (ed. 2) V. 647/1 He had not put his name to his factums or cases.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 587 An action was brought against M. de Voltaire, and an odious factum was drawn up in the printer's name.

1839 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 204 It [sc. a tomb] has since been re-opened by Colonel Vyse, who has not yet published any thing upon the subject, except some letters, and a ‘factum’ against the original explorer of this monument.

1872 W. H. Jervis Gallican Church I. xiii. 440 The curés of Paris and Rouen put forth a series of factums or memorials.

1912 Eastern Law Reporter (Toronto) 10 331 I have carefully considered the evidence adduced before the learned Judge who tried this case, and have also considered the factums of the appellants and respondents.

1986 J. Batten Judges 279 The factums for the case that the court would hear later in the morning sat on Lamer's desk when he reached his chambers.

2001 National Post (Canada) 4 Apr. a18/1 Chief Mountain's case is summarized in a factum prepared by lawyers from Pan Pacific Law Corporation in Vancouver.

1684 Enneades Arithmeticæ 9 Multiplication, by two Numbers given (multiplicand and multiplier) seeks a third, Viz, the Factum or Product.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 351 When the Factum of the proper Powers of all is so.

1817 H. T. Colebrooke Algebra Dissert. p. xvii A factum of two unknown quantities.

1853 W. R. Hamilton Lect. Quaternions 90 While decomposing this geometrical multiplier q, as such a factor, into its own two component factors.., we have thought of q itself rather as operating on a faciend ray α to produce a factum β, then as being found by our comparing the latter ray β, as a dividend, with the former ray α, as a divisor.