before the fact
English
Prepositional phrase
- (law) Before the commission of a crime.
- Coordinate term: after the fact
- accessory before the fact
- Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori.
- Coordinate term: after the fact
- 2021, Amia Srinivasan, “Preface”, in The Right to Sex, Bloomsbury:
- Feminism envisaged as a 'home' insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll.
Translations
before the commission of a crime
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a priori — see a priori
Further reading
- “before the fact”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “before the fact”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “before the fact”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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