Factum

Lat. A culpable act; a fault. Sine facto hcsredia; without fault of the heir. Inst. 2. 20. 16. An unlawful act; an act not founded in right or law; a wrongful act. See Ex facto, De facto. A criminal act. Factum, in old English criminal law, was distinguished from fortia, as the principal act of a murder, in contradistinction to the acts of those who aided and abetted it. Bract, fol. 138, 139. See^ora'a.