Assertion: verdict | /r/CreatedBy | sincere unanimous agreement
Facets:
value: on guilt
type: OTHER
value: on liability
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: [alteration (partly conformed to Medieval Latin) of Anglo-Frenchstatement, finding, verdict, from Old Frenchtrue (from Latin) +saying, from Latinthe usually unanimous finding or decision of a jury on one or more matters (as counts of an indictment or complaint) submitted to it in trial that ordinarily in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare judgment a verdict produced not by sincere unanimous agreement on guilt or liability but by an improper surrender of individual convictionsan impermissible verdict by a jury that is unable to agree on liability and so compromises on an award of damages that is less than what it should be if the plaintiff has a right of recovery free from any doubtsa verdict granted by the court when the party with the burden of proof has failed to present sufficient evidence of a genuine issue of material fact that must be submitted to a jury for its resolution [the order of the court granting a motion for ais effective without any assent of the jury "Rule 50(a)"] see alsoat judgment a verdict of acquittal ordered by the court on the ground that the evidence is not sufficient to support a conviction when viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution judgment of acquittal at judgment [motions forare abolished and motions for judgment of acquittal shall be used in their place "Rule 29(a)"] directed verdict in this entrya verdict that awards damages grossly disproportionate to injury and shocks the court's sense of justice and that may be remedied by a lessening of damages or a new trial see also remittitur a verdict that is either for the plaintiff or for the defendant and is often returned with answers to interrogatories on questions of fact [where there exists a conflict between theand the interrogatories, the trial court may determine that the answers to the interrogatories prevail ", 559 N.E.2d 1301 (1990)"] see also interrogatory special interrogatory compare special verdict in this entry directed verdict in this entrya verdict in which a jury does not find all of the defendants in a trial to be guiltya verdict that finds a defendant guilty on some counts and not guilty on othersa verdict in which a jury is unable to reach or has not yet reached agreement on all of the offenses under consideration[kwō-shənt-]a usually impermissible verdict that is based on a numerical average of the amounts written down by jurors (as percentages of fault in a comparative negligence case)a verdict that awards damages based on the average of the sums written down by the jurors under an agreement that all will be bound by the average figure [are invalid and constitute grounds for a mistrial ", 892 P.2d 703 (1995)"]an impermissible verdict that contradicts itself since the defendant is convicted and acquitted of different crimes having identical elements in the same transaction used chiefly in New York[ri-spÄ n-siv-]a verdict that responds to the indictment and accords with statutorily prescribed findings for a particular charge that include guilty, not guilty, and guilty of a prescribed lesser included offense used in Louisianaa verdict that consists of specific findings of fact (as of liability) in response to interrogatories, that often includes determinations of damages, and that is used by the court in the formation of a judgment compare general verdict in this entryan amount awarded in a verdict [reduced the ]