1. The final part of a speech or writing (such as a jury argument or a pleading).
2. A judgment arrived at by reasoning; an inferential statement.
3. The closing, settling, or final arranging of a treaty, contract, deal, etc. See OPINION(2).
4. Archaic. An act by which one estops oneself from doing anything inconsistent with the act.
“Conclusion is, when a man by his own act upon record hath charged himself with a duty or other thing …. So if the sheriff, upon a capias to him directed, returns that he hath taken the body, and yet hath not the body in court at the day of the return, he shall be amerced ….” Termes de la Ley 102–03 (1st Am. ed. 1812).
