1.A doing, making, or preparing. (Obs.) "A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies."
2.An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. "What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture." "He who most excels in fact of arms."
3.Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
4.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. "I do not grant the fact." "This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true." Note: 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.
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