Factum

Lat. [from facere, to do, to make; L. Fr. fait, q. v.] A thing done; an act or deed. Occultum factum; a secret act. Bract. fol.

187 b.

Initium facti; the beginning of the deed. Id. Ex uno facto; from one act. Id. fol.

235.

Ex post facto; from an after act; in consequence of a thing done afterwards. Id. fol.

11 b, 12.

Fieri non debet, sed factum valet, (q. v.) It ought not to be done, but if done, it is valid.

See Fieri.

Factum infectum fieri nequit

A thing done cannot be undone.

1 Kames' Equity, 96, 259.

Factum non dicitur quod non perseverat

That which does not hold out is not said to be done.

5 Co. 96. Shep. Touch. (by Preston,) 391.

An act which may be avoided as soon as done, is no act in law.

6 Co. 3.

Factum unius alteri nocere non debet

The act or deed of one man ought not to prejudice another.

Co. Litt. 152 b.