what is defacto
De facto (/dÉ¨ ËfaektoÊ/ , /ËfÃ¦ktoÊ-/ , [deÉª deË]) ËfaktoË is A latin expression that means in, fact in, reality in actual, existence, force or, possession as a matter of (fact literally from). fact de facto government is a government wherein all the attributes of sovereignty have, by usurpation, been transferred from those who had been legally invested with them to others, who, sustained by a power above the forms of law, claim to act and do really act in their stead.