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In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.

s business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant…

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

A factor who is a woman. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.

The act of resolving into factors.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.

The business of a factor.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.

One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.

A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.…

From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true applicatio…

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.