veredictum
veredictum noun: a written document in Old English law detailing the facts presented as true at a trial.
Noun
veredictum (plural veredicta)
- A written document in Old English law detailing the facts presented as true at a trial.
- It was an improvement on this ancient cuſtom, that the jurators were named by the court instead of being selected by the parties. It was a further progreſs towards our preſent mode of jury, that the jurators were to hear the ſtatements of both parties before they gave their deciding veredictum, or...1805, Sharon Turner, “The Trial by Jury”, in The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Laws, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language, of the Anglo-Saxons, London: […] Longman...
- The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;1982, Public Record Office Handbooks, page 35
Forms of veredictum
| plural | veredicta |
|---|
Origin of veredictum
From Latin veredictum. Doublet of verdict.
Questions about veredictum
- What does veredictum mean?
- Veredictum means a written document in Old English law detailing the facts presented as true at a trial.
- What part of speech is veredictum?
- Veredictum is a noun.
- What is the plural of veredictum?
- The plural of veredictum is veredicta.
Words near veredictum in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: veredictum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “veredictum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/veredictum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.