Verdict

1. Blacks Law Dictionary:
   Compromise verdict. A verdict is reached when jurors, to avoid a deadlock, concede some issues so that other issues will be resolved as they went.

2. Defective verdict. A verdict on which a judgment cannot be based because of irregularities or legal inadequacies.

3. Legally inconsistent verdict. A verdict in which the same elements are found to exist and not to exist, as when a defendant is acquitted of one offense and convicted for another, even though the offenses arise from the same set of facts and an element of the second offense requires proof that the first offense has been committed.

4. Partial verdict. A verdict by which the jury finds a criminal defendant not guilty of some charges and guilty of others. 

5. Repugnant verdict. A verdict that contradicts itself in that the defendant is convicted and acquitted of different crime having identical elements.

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