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DE FACTO COURT Definition & Legal Meaning

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One established, organized, and exercising its judicial functions under authority of a statute apparently valid, though such statute may be in fact unconstitutional and may be afterwards so adjudged; or a court established and acting under the authority of a de fui to government. 1 Bl. .Tudgin.

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