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Definition of Verdict
Verdict

The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.

Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.

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Verdict Quotations

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Dag Hammarskjold

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
John Acton

Verdict Translations

verdict in Dutch is judicium, sententie, uitspraak, vonnis
verdict in French is jugement, verdict
verdict in German is Urteilsspruch, Spruch, Spruch
verdict in Italian is giudizio
verdict in Spanish is sentencia, veredicto
verdict in Swedish is utslag, dom

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