Physical fact

In the law of evidence. A fact having a physical existence, as distinguished from a mere conception of the mind; one which is visible, audible, or palpable; such as the sound of a pistol shot, a man running, impressions of human feet on the ground.

Burrill, Circ. Ev. 130.

A fact considered to have its seat in some inanimate being, or, if in an animate being, by virtue, not of the qualities by which it is constiinted animate, but of those which it bas in common with the class of inanimate beings.

1 Benth. Jud. Ev. 45