The phrase "a material fact" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to a fact that is significant or essential to a case or situation.
Example: "In order to prove negligence, the plaintiff must establish that a material fact was overlooked by the defendant."
Alternatives: "a significant fact" or "an essential fact".
The memorandum does not draw any conclusions about whether the withholding of the videotapes was unlawful, but it notes that federal law penalizes anyone who "knowingly and willfully" withholds or "covers up" a "material fact" from a federal inquiry or makes "any materially false statement" to investigators.
That is a deliberate misrepresentation of a material fact".
Isn't an injury that makes you a one-handed fighter a material fact?
Once again, his health is a material fact for Apple's shareholders, and more disclosure is required.
"And if he doesn't — if he's not truthful about a material fact, and he knows he's not being truthful about a material fact — then that would constitute perjury, a high crime or misdemeanor for which he could be impeached".
And then last week on CNBC, Warren E. Buffett said that his own recent medical procedure "is a material fact".
Following Stephen's terminology, a disputed material fact is called a "fact in issue" (Stephen 1872: 28).
Legally, sellers should disclose all "material facts" (a euphemism for physical or non-physical problems with the house, such as whether it is built on the site of an Indian graveyard or that the last five owners all died mysterious, horrible deaths) about a house, they don't always.
It is strange then to see the resurgence of those headlines, surfacing in a vacuum, without any material facts to support them.
Mr. Sheldon said Ms. Rickert had violated a state law that made it unlawful to publish "a false statement of material fact about a candidate for public office" in advertisements and campaign materials if the statement was made with "actual malice," meaning in the knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard to its truth or falsity.
While a certain amount of variation is tolerated, Mr. Wagner said, "the standard for fraud is a misrepresentation of material fact".
