verdict

tuomio, päätös puhekieltä A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

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Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:(..)it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.