find for (or find in favour of)
Law (Of a court) make a decision in favour of, or judge to be innocent: the Court of Exchequer found for the plaintiffs...- The court should find for the Attorney General on this one - a public nuisance need not arise from the use of land.
- For those reasons we respectfully submit that the Court should find for the defendants in relation to this claim.
- The judge found in favour of the claimant against both the first and second defendants for damages to be assessed, subject to a deduction of 50% in respect of contributory negligence.
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