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fact patterns

fact patterns is the plural 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

Questions about fact patterns

What is fact patterns the plural of?
Fact patterns is the plural of fact pattern.

Words near fact patterns in the dictionary

  1. fact is
  2. fact is stranger than fiction
  3. fact of life
  4. fact of the matter
  5. fact pattern
  6. fact patterns
  7. fact sheet
  8. fact sheets
  9. fact table
  10. fact tables
  11. fact-check

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