n.
1) to arrive at, reach a ~
2) to announce; bring in, deliver, hand down, render, return a ~
3) to sustain ('uphold') a ~ (the higher court sustained the ~)
4) to overturn, quash, set aside a ~
5) to appeal a ~
6) a fair; unfair ~
7) an adverse, unfavorable; directed; favorable; sealed ~
8) a ~ of guilty; or: a guilty ~; a ~ of not guilty; a ~ for the defendant; a ~ for the plaintiff (the jury brought in a ~ of not guilty)
9) a ~ that + clause (they appealed the court's ~ that fraud had been committed)
10) ( misc. ) to defy/ignore a ~