ultimate facts

What are these 'ultimate facts'? They are the facts which the plaintiff must prove, the facts 'upon which the plaintiff asks relief,' not the facts which the defendant must prove in establishing an affirmative defense.

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.

Facts in issue as opposed to probative or evidential facts, the latter being such as serve to establish or disprove the issue. Kahn v. Smelting Co., 2 Utah 379. 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 a party concerned in the matter in dispute. ULTIMUM SUPPLICI U M (Lat.). The last or extreme punishment; the penalty of death. ULTIMUS H A: RES (Lat.). The last or remote heir; the lord. So called in contradistinction to the hwres proximus and the hwres rcmotior. Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110.