Ultimate fact
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The principal fact in an issue, as distinguished from facts which are purely evidentiary, and which should not be pleaded.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
Defined under Fact in Black's Law Dictionary.