Făct, n.

n. [Lat. factum, from facere, to make or do; Fr. fait, Pr. fait, faig, fag, Pg. facto, feito, O. Sp. fecho, N. Sp. hecho, It. fatto.] 1. A doing, making, or preparing; hence, an effect produced or achieved; any thing done or that comes to pass; an act; an event. *A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies.* B. Jonson. *What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture.* Evelyn.

2. Reality; truth; as, in fact.
3. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

☞ The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with law: as, attorney at law, and attorney in fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between law and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the law. Burrill. Bouvier. Syn. — Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance. See EVENT.