"before the fact" meaning in English

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        "Before the commission of a crime."
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          "sense": "before the commission of a crime",
          "word": "ennen rikosta"
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        "Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori."
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      "sense": "before the commission of a crime",
      "word": "ennen rikosta"
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