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Question of fact   /kwˈɛstʃən əv fækt/   Listen
Question of fact

noun
1.
A disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide.  Synonym: matter of fact.






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"Question of fact" Quotes from Famous Books



... question, Flynn, a very delicate question of fact and propriety. Satisfied as you and Elsie are of your entire loyalty to the United States and the associated Powers, I think you should remain, a martyr, if need be, to the great ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson

... to me," I said, at length, "that the identity of the remains is the primary question and that is a question of fact. It doesn't seem any ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman

... L. L. Paine (Congregational): "It may be honestly asked by some, Was immersion the primitive form of baptism? As to the question of fact, the testimony is ample and decisive. It is a point on which ancient, medieval and modern historians alike, Catholic and Protestant, Lutheran and Calvinist, have no controversy. No historian who cares for his reputation would dare to deny it, and no historian who is worthy of the name ...
— To Infidelity and Back • Henry F. Lutz

... again, shut the door, and resumed our seats. I was thinking how best to improve this advantage, if it might be called one, when he took up the conversation in such a matter-of-course way, so assuming that there could be no serious question of fact between us, that I felt myself placed in the weakest ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.

... in a daze of incredulity. This was his first serious defeat; and he could not understand it. The case was absolutely open and shut, a mere question of fact to which there were sufficient and competent witnesses. For the moment ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White


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