Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

fact in issue.

1. Hist. A fact that the plaintiff alleges and that the defendant controverts. 2. A fact to be determined by a fact-trier; PROBANDUM. - Also written fact-inissue. - Also termed principal fact. "A fact-in-issue is a fact as to the correctness of which the tribunal, under the law of the case, must be persuaded; the term 'probandum' (thing to be proved) will here be used as the convenient single word." John H. Wigmore, A Students' Textbook of the Lam of Evidence 7 (1935).