30 diciembre 2008

Legal terminology "finding"

finding : (sust,) conclusión, hallazgo, resultado.

(noun) a decision by a court or tribunal regarding a question of fact.

"The court's finding was in our favor."

Related terms

finding of fact - a finding of fact is a determination made by the fact finder (usually a judge or a jury) based on the evidence, regarding an issue involving the facts of a case, raised by one party to a case. "The defendant changed his plea to guilty after the court found as a fact that he had been present at the scene of the crime."
findings/conclusions of law- a finding of law is a determination of law reached by the court based on the facts found. "Based on the evidence before it, the court found at law that the company had indeed engaged in anti-competitive practices designed to maintain its monopoly position."

1 comentario:

Raul Quevedo dijo...

Jamás me hubiera imaginado que "finding" como termino legal tuviera tal significado. No cabe duda alguna que aún tenemos mucho camino por recorrer en el mundo de la traducción jurada.