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fact-pattern

fact-pattern is the alternative form of fact pattern.

Meaning of fact pattern

Noun

fact pattern (plural fact patterns)

  1. A set of relationships that have been established for an event from which a legal conclusion can be drawn.
    • This simulation has four separate fact patterns, each followed by five legal conclusions relating to the fact pattern preceding those five numbered legal conclusions.2007, Patrick R. Delaney, O. Ray Whittington, Wiley CPA Examination Review 2007-2008, Problems and Solutions, →ISBN

Forms of fact-pattern

pluralfact-patterns

Questions about fact-pattern

What is fact-pattern the alternative form of?
Fact-pattern is the alternative form of fact pattern.

Words near fact-pattern in the dictionary

  1. fact-checks
  2. fact-finder
  3. fact-finders
  4. fact-finding
  5. fact-free
  6. fact-pattern
  7. fact-patterns
  8. fact-value distinction
  9. facta
  10. factable
  11. factbook

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