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In law, a verdict is the judgment of a case before a court of law. The term literally means "to speak the truth" and is derived from Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman: a compound of ver ("true," from the Latin verus ) and dit ("speech," from the Latin dictum , the neuter form of dicere , to tell or to speak). In a criminal case, the verdict is either an acquittal ("not guilty") or a conviction ("guilty"), except in Scotland which also has the verdict of " Not Proven" available to a jury. Different counts may have different verdicts, and a conviction will be followed by sentencing. In a civil case, the verdict may be a judgment such as ordering one party to pay money to the other. Wikipedia article (the free online encyclopedia) reproduced under the terms of the GNU (General Public License) Free Documentation License. |