| William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...avoid the danger of having their verdict set aside, will find a special verdict, and therein they state the naked facts, as they find them to be proved, and pray the advice of the court thereon,, couchiding conditionally, that if, upon the whole matter, the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff... | |
| William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...avoid the danger of having their verdict attained, will find a special verdict. And herein the}- state the naked facts, as they find them to be proved, and...conditionally, that if upon the whole matter the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff had cause of action, they then find for the plaintiff; if otherwise,... | |
| Dudley Julius Medley - Constitutional history - 1902 - 674 pages
...explains a special verdict to be one in which, some difficult matter of law having arisen, the jury 'state the naked facts, as they find them to be proved, and...conditionally, that if upon the whole matter the court shall be of opinion that the plaintiff had cause of action, they then find for the plaintiff ; if otherwise,... | |
| George Burr Clementson - Jury - 1905 - 422 pages
...verdict ; which is grounded on the statute of Westm. 2, 13 Edw. I, c. 30, sec. 2. And herein they state the naked facts, as they find them to be proved, and...conditionally, that if upon the whole matter the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff had cause of action, they then find for the plaintiff; if otherwise,... | |
| M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 620 pages
...other .point. A verdict is the finding cf the jury. A special verdict is where the jurors state the facts as they find them to be proved, and pray the advice of the court thereon. JUDGMENT is the sentence of the law pronounced by the court upon the matter contained in the record,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1412 pages
...660. In special verdicts, the jury states the naked facts as it finds them to be proven, and prays the advice of the court thereon, concluding conditionally that if, upon the whole matter, the court should be of the opinion that the plaintiff has a cause , of action, then it finds for the plaintiff;... | |
| Byrin K. Elliott - 1911 - 668 pages
...States Mut. Ace. Assn., 8 Utah 431, 32 Pac. 696. CHAPTER XV. SPECIAL VERDICTS. "And herein they state the naked facts, as they find them to be proved, and...conditionally, that, if upon the whole matter the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff had a cause of action, they find for the plaintiff; if otherwise,... | |
| Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - Lawyers - 1911 - 632 pages
...431, 32 Pac. 696. CHAPTER XV. SPECIAL VERDICTS. "And herein they state the naked facts, as they fmd them to be proved, and pray the advice of the court...conditionally, that, if upon the whole matter the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff had a cause of action, they find for the plaintiff; if otherwise,... | |
| William Henry Lloyd - Civil procedure - 1916 - 980 pages
...Schindlcr, 8 Nebr. 672, 26 NW 476 (1886). A special verdict states the facts as found by the jury and prays the advice of the court thereon, concluding conditionally, that if upon the whole matter the court shall be of opinion that the issue ought to be found for the plaintiff, then they find for the plaintiff... | |
| William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - Law - 1920 - 1544 pages
...on those facts to the court.11 In it the jury state the naked facts as they find them to be proven, and pray the advice of the court thereon, concluding conditionally that if on the whole matter the court should be of the opinion that the plaintiff has a cause of action, then... | |
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