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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verdict
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a jury's verdict (=the decision of a jury)
▪ The jury's verdict is final.
giving...verdict
▪ The jury will be giving its verdict within the next couple of days.
open verdict
▪ The jury returned an open verdict.
reach a verdict
▪ The jury failed to reach a verdict.
recorded an open verdict
▪ He said there was some doubt over the way Grant had died, and recorded an open verdict.
recorded...verdict
▪ The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
returned an open verdict
▪ The jury returned an open verdict.
the jury reaches/arrives at a verdict (=decides if someone is guilty or not guilty)
▪ Has the jury reached a verdict?
the jury returns a verdict (=gives its decision to the court)
▪ The jury returned a guilty verdict.
the trial verdict
▪ His lawyers have said they will appeal the civil trial verdict.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪ The jury at Nottingham Crown Court returned its final verdicts yesterday.
▪ The statistical sum of their opinions is not the final verdict on an issue.
▪ Gen Krstic faces life imprisonment if the final verdict, due in the first half of next year, is guilty.
▪ However, the final verdict on toxicity rests on the measurement of serum calcium.
▪ Ocalan was not in court to hear the final verdict.
guilty
▪ If prosecutors win guilty verdicts, they could ask for maximum prison terms.
▪ The jury delivered the not guilty verdicts on the fourth day of the trial.
▪ He then sunk his head into his hand as the ensuing guilty verdicts were announced.
▪ He denied a further 10 theft and deception offences and not guilty verdicts were recorded.
▪ It was also a victory for those who have concluded Simpson escaped a guilty verdict in his criminal trial.
▪ Today the jury were ordered to enter a formal not guilty verdict.
▪ The guilty verdict and death sentence brought little relief.
open
▪ And the coroner recorded an open verdict.
▪ The inquest jury returned an open verdict because of conflicting evidence.
▪ In Central News tonight: Open verdict: Family of barn fire victim say it rules out suicide.
▪ As there was no medical evidence on the cause of death, he recorded an open verdict.
▪ Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield said death was due to drowning and recorded an open verdict.
▪ Read in studio An inquest jury has returned an open verdict on the death of a baby girl killed at a playgroup.
▪ So an open verdict was the only appropriate one he could give.
▪ Last Friday at Marc's inquest an open verdict was recorded.
unanimous
▪ Mr Justice Buchanan frowned before asking if there were any chance of a unanimous verdict being reached if he allowed more time.
▪ Unlike the criminal trial, the jury did not have to render a unanimous verdict, although it did.
▪ The jury was unanimous in its verdict.
▪ They returned two hours later, when the foreman addressed the hushed courtroom with their unanimous verdicts.
▪ The jury of five men and six women reached unanimous guilty verdicts after 23 hours of deliberation.
▪ At his trial six months later Mr Ponting was acquitted by the unanimous verdict of a jury.
▪ Objective rather than objectionable was the unanimous verdict of the proletariat who always addressed her as Miss Read.
▪ But after a day of deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous Guilty verdict.
■ NOUN
death
▪ The jury returned an accidental death verdict.
inquest
▪ The first inquest verdict was later quashed by the Court of Appeal.
▪ But hospital staff say they've been vindicated by the inquest verdict.
▪ The High Court will hold a judicial review to see if the inquest verdicts can be overturned.
▪ And a tragic accident. Inquest verdict on boy killed by ski-lift.
▪ And accidental death. Inquest verdict after three die in coach crash.
jury
▪ Intel said the decision overturning the jury verdict in its favour will have little impact on the 80486 market.
▪ I accept full responsibility for the jury verdict.
▪ It had no jurisdiction to undermine the jury verdict in this way.
▪ Now, an expected appeal of the jury verdict could drag on for months.
▪ Though associates said Simpson will appeal the jury verdicts returned this week, that could be difficult.
majority
▪ Once he had learned that it was proving impossible he reluctantly nodded his agreement to a majority verdict.
▪ It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges.
▪ A jury took an hour and a half to find McPherson guilty by a majority verdict.
▪ In their majority verdict they also expressed the view that the crime was committed under provocation.
▪ But a majority verdict went to Pearce.
suicide
▪ Murder and suicide verdict after car park double shooting.
▪ Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
■ VERB
accept
▪ The regents were still unwilling to accept verdicts of such dubious historicity.
▪ So we should have accepted the verdict of the first jury.
▪ These people were prepared to accept Fleet Street's verdict that he was insane.
▪ When Louis' verdict condemned the Provisions of Oxford outright, the Montfortians refused to accept the verdict and prepared for war.
▪ Because Montand's adopted daughter refused to accept the verdict an order for exhumation of Montand's body was issued.
▪ Nevertheless, the doctors were inexorable, and there was nothing to be done but accept the verdict.
announce
▪ The judge sums up briefly to the jury, who consider and announce their verdict.
appeal
▪ All 14 appealed against the verdict.
▪ Simpson can, and most likely will, appeal the verdict against him.
▪ Any moment now, Judi would be turning them into a Jury, appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family.
▪ The former president is appealing the verdict.
▪ This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris.
▪ Though associates said Simpson will appeal the jury verdicts returned this week, that could be difficult.
▪ His lawyers will almost certainly appeal against the verdict.
▪ He appealed against the verdict, and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal.
arrive
▪ Others arrive at verdicts much more quickly.
await
▪ Everyone was watching in silence, awaiting his verdict.
▪ No longer smiling, he stood nervously awaiting our verdict.
▪ Meanwhile, Yoon sits in a Seoul jail awaiting his verdict.
▪ Never before had Dustin been so exposed or felt such trepidation while awaiting their verdict on him.
bring
▪ After a six hour trial, the jury retired for a further two hours before bringing a verdict of guilty.
▪ The jury was unable to bring in a verdict on the remaining six defendants.
consider
▪ The jury retired to consider its verdict in the trial of Harold Shipman, the family doctor accused of killing 15 patients.
▪ When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days.
▪ The judge says if the jury believe that, they may consider a manslaughter verdict against James.
▪ There's always a pause when the jury goes out to consider its verdict.
▪ I gave him my considered verdict, as if he really cared. ` I think maybe six can win, Romario.
▪ The judge will sum up the evidence tomorrow before asking the jury to consider a verdict.
▪ The jury will retire to consider their verdicts tomorrow.
deliver
▪ Robin delivers the first verdict on it's performance.
▪ The foreman, a young man with glasses, delivered the verdict forms, which were read by the clerk.
▪ The jury delivered the not guilty verdicts on the fourth day of the trial.
▪ Letters delivered a verdict of innocence.
▪ After a morning of legal debate the jury returned to deliver formal verdicts after direction by Mr Justice Auld.
▪ Dyson sat back and put his finger-tips together, as if about to deliver his verdict.
▪ After initial indecision, the inquest jury delivered a verdict of lawful killing.
give
▪ He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict.
▪ Those who believed were asked to give their verdict on major psychic phenomena.
▪ The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King's past only after it had given its verdict.
▪ Wren, 50, looked shocked as a jury including six women gave the verdict at Inner London Crown Court.
▪ I gave him my considered verdict, as if he really cared. ` I think maybe six can win, Romario.
▪ They're going to give their verdict tonight, as to whether they can afford to pay fifty pounds a week.
hear
▪ Another of the defendants, Daniel Winter, cleared of manslaughter yesterday, was in court to hear the verdicts.
▪ I should be interested to hear readers' verdicts on the matter.
▪ That evening - still numb - a new but already dear friend, Gabby, telephoned to hear the verdict.
▪ Ocalan was not in court to hear the final verdict.
▪ Bush, Bowen and Mark Williams were not in the dock to hear the verdicts returned against them.
▪ The pair were not in court to hear the verdict in Nanterre, Paris.
▪ She didn't stay in court to hear the verdict.
overturn
▪ The couple appealed to a higher court in Guangzhou, which overturned that verdict in May.
▪ Intel said the decision overturning the jury verdict in its favour will have little impact on the 80486 market.
reach
▪ Allow me to present the evidence and then reach your own verdict.
▪ Nor did he grant the plaintiffs' request to sequester the panel until they reach a verdict.
▪ It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges.
▪ The jury considered the matter for many days and have reached their verdict.
▪ However, on July 29, the same day the Reclamation panel reached its verdict, Otis could no longer contain himself.
▪ As in a hung jury - one that can not reach a verdict.
▪ To reach a verdict, only nine of 12 jurors had to agree.
read
▪ Shipman stared straight ahead as the foreman of the jury read out the verdict tothe packed courtroom.
▪ You essentially have to read the verdict before you open the envelope.
▪ Pamela Jean Johnson, 45, cried when the jurors in a Houston court read the verdict.
▪ So Kenny read through the verdict form once more.
record
▪ The Coroner recorded a verdict that his death was misadventure.
▪ And the coroner recorded an open verdict.
▪ He recorded a verdict that she killed herself.
▪ South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life.
▪ It wasn't read out in court, but it lead the Coroner to record a verdict of suicide.
▪ Deputy Coroner Mr Pollard recorded verdicts of accidental death and said he was satisfied what had happened had been purely an accident.
▪ Coroner Michael Sheffield recorded a verdict of accidental death.
render
▪ The world has already rendered its verdict.
▪ The predominantly white jury, which ultimately rendered the verdict, was composed of six men and six women.
▪ Unlike the criminal trial, the jury did not have to render a unanimous verdict, although it did.
return
▪ The jury at Nottingham Crown Court returned its final verdicts yesterday.
▪ But, again, he failed to sway the jury, which returned a first-degree murder verdict.
▪ Taking into account the thundering magnificence of your new single, the jury must grudgingly return a verdict of not guilty.
▪ The mostly white jury deliberated for three days before returning its verdicts.
▪ One woman juror winked at Liberace as she returned for the verdict.
▪ I could see it in their faces when they returned their verdict.
▪ Juries are becoming more likely to return guilty verdicts in tough-to-prove cases - and judges more likely to slap on longer sentences.
▪ On May 17, 1980, the jury returned a verdict acquitting the officers on all charges.
wait
▪ When I had finished and sat back waiting for the verdict, Steve plonked his tea mug down on to the table.
▪ The Gnomes sat together at the end of the breakfast table and waited anxiously for the verdict.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring in a verdict
▪ The jury was unable to bring in a verdict on the remaining six defendants.
deliver a judgment/verdict
▪ After initial indecision, the inquest jury delivered a verdict of lawful killing.
▪ It is up to the people considering the planning application to deliver a judgment on the assessment.
▪ Letters delivered a verdict of innocence.
majority vote/decision/verdict etc
▪ And I suppose the way to change the damned constitution is with a majority vote.
▪ It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges.
▪ Stopping the White House from selling weapons to a foreign country requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
▪ Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.
▪ The majority decision said the cabinet must now report to the legislature on its plan to scrap the plant.
▪ The reason for this is that government output is determined on the basis of a simple majority vote model.
▪ Then there is the problem of qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues.
▪ With a pure majority vote, this would presumably be enacted.
overturn a decision/verdict etc
▪ The High Court has overturned decisions made by secretaries of state.
return a verdict
▪ A jury has returned a verdict of accidental death on the children who died at the barracks where their father was stationed.
▪ He directed the jury to return verdicts of not guilty, which they did.
▪ On May 17, 1980, the jury returned a verdict acquitting the officers on all charges.
▪ Taking into account the thundering magnificence of your new single, the jury must grudgingly return a verdict of not guilty.
▪ The jury did retire, for several minutes, before returning a verdict of guilty as charged.
▪ The jury found that the agreement was made and returned a verdict for the plaintiff, awarding damages of £500.
▪ The jury took twenty minutes to return a verdict of guilty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a guilty verdict
▪ A second inquest in February returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
▪ It took the jury 24 hours of deliberations to reach their verdict.
▪ Jurors were unable to reach a verdict after deliberating two hours Friday afternoon.
▪ The foreman read the verdict of guilty fourteen times, one for each defendant.
▪ The judge will hand down a verdict in January, the newspaper reported.
▪ The jury's not guilty verdict was criticized all over the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But allow me to move straight on to the verdict on your work.
▪ For some people, fundamentalist Protestants most prominently, the issue likewise has been settled, but with the opposite verdict.
▪ He denied a further 10 theft and deception offences and not guilty verdicts were recorded.
▪ The coroner recorded an accident verdict.
▪ The debate is over and the verdict is in on capital gains taxes.
▪ The statistical sum of their opinions is not the final verdict on an issue.
▪ Then there were allegations that the verdict was fueled by anti-Hispanic racism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verdict

Verdict \Ver"dict\, n. [OE. verdit, OF. verdit, veirdit, LL. verdictum, veredictum; L. vere truly (fr. verus true) + dictum a saying, a word, fr. dicere, dictum, to say. See Very, and Dictum.]

  1. (Law) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.

    Note: The decision of a judge or referee, upon an issue of fact, is not called a verdict, but a finding, or a finding of fact.
    --Abbott.

  2. Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.

    These were enormities condemned by the most natural verdict of common humanity.
    --South.

    Two generations have since confirmed the verdict which was pronounced on that night.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verdict

1530s, alteration of Middle English verdit (c.1300), "a jury's decision in a case," from Anglo-French verdit (Old French voirdit) "sworn testimony, affidavit; judgment, written record of a verdict," literally "a true saying or report," from ver, veir "true" (see very) + dit, past participle of dire "to say" (see diction). Spelling influenced by Medieval Latin verdictum "a verdict."

Wiktionary
verdict

n. 1 (lb en legal) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest. 2 An opinion or judgement.

WordNet
verdict

n. (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment [syn: finding of fact]

Wikipedia
Verdict

In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge.

Verdict (play)

Verdict is a 1958 play by British mystery writer Agatha Christie. It is unusual for Agatha Christie plays in more than one way: for example, it is an original play, not based on a story or novel; and though there is a murder in the story, it is a melodrama more than a typical 'whodunnit' mystery as the murder takes place on stage.

It was first produced by Peter Saunders and directed by Charles Hickman, with decor by Joan Jefferson Farjeon. The play premiered at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton on 25 February 1958, before moving to the Strand Theatre, London on 22 May 1958. It ran for 250 performances. In 1987 the play ran in the Arena Players Main Stage Theater in East Farmingdale, New York, and in May 2009 it premiered with an international cast in Luxembourg's Abbaye de Neumunster.

Verdict (film)

Verdict is a 1974 French- Italian drama film, directed by André Cayatte, starring Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin and Julien Bertheau. A French judge comes under intense personal pressure to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover. It was also released under the title Jury of One.

Verdict (comics)
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Verdict (disambiguation)

In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury.

Verdict or The Verdict may also refer to:

Usage examples of "verdict".

A verdict against Goffman would put enormous pressure on the company to settle and avoid years of litigation and the constant barrage of big verdicts.

The outgoing Premier, Meline, had attempted to deal with the case by denying that any case existed after the rendering of a verdict, but Cavaignac decided to face the issue squarely.

The light of their faces they show him -- his case is Prejudged and his verdict already secured.

When their verdict had been inspected by the judge it was given to the prothonotary to read.

He had no real hope that he would ever be accepted as Plumed-pillar Redux, but he would live at least until the knights reached a verdict, which would probably be appealed to the Emperor and Great Council.

He accepted the result philosophically and refrained from comments, content, apparently, to leave the part he had played in world affairs to the verdict of history.

Nevertheless, in spite of the defect above referred to, it is impossible to deny that the sculptor of the Herod and Caiaphas figures was a man of very rare ability, nor can the general verdict which assigns him the third place among the workers on the Sacro Monte be reasonably disputed.

Durance must be right when he called the social English the most sheepy of sheep:--and Nesta could not consent to the cruel verdict, she adored her compatriots.

Hisser won not-guilty-by-reason-of-entertaining-legal-defense verdicts for the most savage, unremorseful, bloody-minded, and ill-dressed murderers of its time, winning kudos, plaudits, accolades, and prize Cadi1lacs from the wards committee of the hoity-toity American Bar Association.

Rejecting the verdict of the jury and the unanimous opinion of his cabinet, Adams pardoned Fries and the two others, never doubting he had done the right thing.

While the solicitor was employed in this negotiation, he despatched his valet-de-chambre to one nobleman, and Maurice to another, with billets, signifying the nature of the verdict which his adversary had obtained, and desiring that each would lend him a thousand pounds upon his parole, until he could negotiate bills upon the Continent.

Nabopolassar gave his verdict, leaped again joyously as the Chaldaean seer wormed his way off the platform and back to his place among the little crowd on the ground.

By the verdict of the ordinary juries, the fate of the prisoners must be decided.

The verdict that Lukan was guilty of heresy on all counts and would be executed the next day had shocked the courtroom.

Justice spoke for the Court as in the Slocum Case, it was held that a trial court had the right to enter a judgment on the verdict of the jury for the plaintiff after overruling a motion by defendant for dismissal on the ground of insufficient evidence.