Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Conclusion

n. 1. The final part of a speech or writing (such as a jury argument or a pleading). 2. A judgment arrived at by reasoning; an inferential statement. 3. The closing, settling, or final arranging (as of a treaty or contract). 4. Archaic. An act by which one estops oneself from doing anything inconsistent with it."Conclusion is, when a man by his own act upon record hath charged himself with a duty or other thing .... So if the sheriff, upon a capias to him directed, returns that he hath taken the body, and yet hath not the body in court at the day of the return, he shall be amerced . . .." Termes de la Ley 102-03 (1st Am. ed. 1812).

Conclusional

adj. See CONCLUSORY

Conclusionary

adj. See CONCLUSORY.

Negatio conclusionis est error in lege

The denial of a conclusion is error in law.

conclusion of fact

A factual deduction drawn from observed or proven facts; an evidentiary inference. Cf. FINDING OF FACT.

conclusion of law

A inference on a question of law, made as a result of a factual showing, no further evidence being required; a legal inference. Cf. FINDING OF FACT; LEGAL CONCLUSION.

conclusion to the country

Archaic. The closing part of a pleading that requests the trial of an issue by a jury. Cf. GOING TO THE COUNTRY.

legal conclusion

A statement that expresses a legal duty or result but omits the facts creating or supporting the duty or result. Cf. CONCLUSION OF LAW; CONCLUSION OF FACT; FINDING OF FACT.