Conclusion

The close; the end. In Pleading. In Declarations. That part which follows the statement of the cause of action. In personal or mixed actions, where the object is to recover damages, the conclusion is, properly, to the damage of the plaintiff, etc. Com. Dig. Pleader, c. 84; 10 Co. 1156. A'nd see 1 M. & S. 236; Damages. The form was anciently, in the King's Bench, "To the damage of the said A B, and thereupon he brings suit;" in the Exchequer, "To the damage," etc., "whereby he is the less able to satisfy our said lord the king the debts which he owes his said majesty at his exchequer, and therefore he brings his suit;" 1 Chit. PI. 356. It is said to be mere matter of form, and not demurrable; Pierson v. Wallace, 7 Ark. 282. In Pleas. The conclusion is either to the country — which must be the case when ah issue is tendered, that is, whenever the plaintiff's material statements are contradicted — or by verification, which must be the case when new matter is introduced. See Verification. Every plea in bar, it is said, must have its proper conclusion. All the formal parts of pleadings have been much modified by statute in the various states and in England. In Practice. Making the last argument or address to the court or jury. The party on whom the burden of proof rests, in general, has the conclusion. See Opening and Closing. In Remedies. An estoppel; a bar; the act of a man by which he has confessed a matter or thing which he can no longer deny. For example, the sheriff is concluded by his reeluded by his return. See Plowd. 276 6; 8 Thomas, Co. Litt. 600.

The end; the termination; the act of finishing or bringing to a close. The conclusion of a declaration or complaint is all that part which follows the statement of the plaintiff's cause of action. The conclusion of a plea is its final clause, in which the defendant either "puts himself upon the country" (where a material averment of the declaration is traversed and issue tendered) or offers a verification, which is proper where new matter is introduced. State v. Waters, 1 Mo. App. 7.

In trial practice. It signifies making the final or concluding address to the jury or the court. This is, in generui, the privilege of the party who has to sustain the burden of proof. Conclusion also denotes a bar or estoppel; the consequence, as respects the individual, of a judgment upon the subject-matter, or of his confession of a matter or thing which the law thenceforth forbids him to deny.

— Conclusion against the form of the statute. The proper form for the conclusion of an indictment for an offense created by statute is the technical phrase "against the form of the statute in such case made and provided ;" or, in Latin, contra formam statuti.

— Conclusion of fact. An inference drawn from the subordinate or evidentiary facts.

— Conclusion of law. Within the rule that pleadings should contain only facts, and not conclusions of law, this means a proposition not arrived at by any process of natural reasoning from a fact or combination of facts stated, but by the application of the artificial rules of law to the facts pleaded. Levins v. Rovegno, 71 Cal. 273, 12 Pac. 161; Iron Co. v. Vandervort, 164 Pa. 572, 30 Atl. 491; Clark v. Railway Co., 28 Minn, 69, 9 N. W. 75.

— Conclusion to the country. In pleading. The tender of an issue to be tried by jury. Steph. PI. 230.

The end; the termination; the act of finishing or bringing to a closes. The conclusion of a declaration or complaint is all that part which follows the statement of the plaintiff's cause of action. The conclusion of a plea is its final clause, in ment of the declaration is traversed and issue tendered) or offers a verification, which is proper where new matter is introduced.

In trial practice. It signifies making the final or concluding address to the jury or the court. ‘This-is, in general, the privilege of the party who has to sustain the burden of proof, Conclusion also denotes a bar or estoppel; the consequence, as respects the individual, of a judgment upon the subject-matter, or of hig confession of a matter or thing which the law thenceforth forbids him to deny. CONCLUSION AGAINST THE

[Lat. conclusio, from eoncludere, to conclude.] An estoppel or bar, arising from some previous act or admission of a party. See Conclude. An inference or deduction of law. An end or close, as of a pleading.

practice. Making the last address to the, court or jury. The party on whom the onus proband: is cast has the conclusion.