Ultimate Facts
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The main or primary facts in an issue. The logical results of the proofs.
175 111. 482.
The facts which prove the ultimate facts are evidentiary facts or probative facts. The ultimate facts are to be pleaded, while the others are not, being "evidence." ULTIMATUM (Lat.) The last proposition made in making a contract, a treaty, and the like; as, the government of the United States has given its ultimatum, — has made the last proposition it will make to complete the proposed treaty. The word also means the result of a negotiation, and it comprises the final determination of the parties concerned in the object in dispute. ULTIMUM SUPPLICIUM (Lat.) The last or extreme punishment; the penalty of death. ULTIMUM SUPPLICIUM ESSE MORtem solam interpretamur. The extremest punishment we consider to be death alone.
Dig. 48. 19. 21.
ULTIMUM TEMPUS PARIENDI (Lat.) The extreme period of bearing; the extreme period between the conception and the birth of a child.
2 Steph. Comm. 317.
ULTIMUS HAERES (Lat.) The last or remote heir; the lord. So called in contradistinction to the haeres proximus and the haeres remotior.
Dalr. Feud. Prop. 110.