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Ultimate fact

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The final or resulting fact reached by processes of logical reasoning from the detached or successive facts in evidence, and which is fundamental and determinative of the whole case.

Levins v. Rovegno, 71 Cal. 273, 12 Pac. 161; Kahn v. Central Smelting Co, 2 Utah. 371; Caywood v. Farrell, 175 111. 480, 51 N. E. 775.