Adverse verdict
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Where a party, appealing from an allowance of damages by commissioners, recovers a verdict in his favor, but for a less amount of damages than had been originally allowed, such verdict is adverse to him, within the meaning of his undertaking to pay costs if the verdict should be adverse to him.
Hamblin v. Barnstable County, 16 Gray (Mass.) 256.