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Special verdict

noun

A verdict rendered on certain specific factual issues posed by the court without finding for one party or the other.

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"Special verdict" Quotes from Famous Books

... and others were indicted in Pennsylvania for kidnapping a negro woman on the 1st of April, 1837. The cause came to trial before the York Quarter Sessions, May 22, 1839; and the counsel agreed that a special verdict should be taken and judgment rendered, and thereupon the case carried up, so as to present the questions of law arising, under the Pennsylvania Emancipation Act of 1780, upon the United States ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various

... considered resistance to the king's patent as highly criminal; and one Whitshed, then Chief Justice, who had tried the printer of the former pamphlet, and sent out the jury nine times, till by clamour and menaces they were frightened into a special verdict, now presented the Drapier, but could not prevail on the grand jury ...

— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson

Words linked to "Special verdict" : jurisprudence, general verdict, law, finding of fact, verdict