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English
Prepositional phrase
before the fact
- (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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