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Definition of Compromise verdict

1. Noun. A verdict resulting from improper compromises between jurors on material issues.

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Literary usage of Compromise verdict

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"... a verdict for a less sum than the plaintiff is clearly entitled to will be set aside as a compromise verdict, and as against the evidence. O'Shea v. ..."

2. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1920)
"compromise verdict.—A verdict which is reached only by' the surrender of conscientious convictions on one material issue by some jurors in return for a ..."

3. New York Annotated Cases: Selected from the Current Decisions of the New by Wayland Everett Benjamin, James Gereau Greene, Cyrus W. Phillips (1903)
""(xx) The jury, after deliberating all night, there being no possibility of agreeing except on a compromise verdict, has finally agreed to the eom- ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"The jury found the defendant guilty of unlawfully shooting at another, which was a compromise verdict in this case, and the court fixed the punishment in ..."

5. A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States by Stewart Rapalje (1891)
"compromise verdict. — What does not constitute a compromise verdict, see Monroe v. State, 76 D. 68. It is no objection in law to the verdict that a juror in ..."

6. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1897)
"The record shows that after the jury had been out all night the foreman said to the court that they had arrived at a compromise verdict; that they had ..."

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