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The judge expressly found that the material risks (sovereign default, currency default and counterparty default), were all disclosed and known to AP.

Could you kindly explain what "expressly found that" means in the sentence as above?

I know what both "expressly" and "found that" mean, but I'm not sure what "expressly found that" means.

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These is a legal expression, and you will not find it outside that context.

It is saying that the judge said specifically (rather than referring to it, or implying it by choice of words) that the risks were disclosed etc

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    You definitely find expressly outside of legal contexts, at least in the U.S. See Merriam-Webster's quotes.
    – Peter Shor
    Dec 21, 2019 at 14:22
  • I was thinking of the collocation, @PeterShor. Found that normally refer to somebody discovering something, not somebody expressing something, and so expressly found that is incoherent in most ordinary contexts .
    – Colin Fine
    Dec 21, 2019 at 15:56
  • @ColinFine I don't tend to agree. Anyone who is outputting conclusions could expressly find something -- a committee, for instance.
    – Mike Graham
    Dec 21, 2019 at 17:14
  • @MikeGraham: OK. There are 31 instances of expressly found that in the iWeb corpus. One of them is referring to a research paper, so yes, it can occur outside legal contexts. The other 30 all have a court, judge, jury, or magistrate as the subject.
    – Colin Fine
    Dec 21, 2019 at 18:21
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    Expressly in the legal context typically means “written” or “expressed” in some permanent medium, as opposed to a verbal statement, implication etc. With nothing else to go by here, I would interpret expressly found as something the judge wrote in a legal document, as opposed to a verbal statement made in the courtroom.
    – user205876
    Dec 22, 2019 at 3:00
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the term find is the verb for the noun finding

It means:

Finding The result of the deliberations of a jury or a court. A decision upon a Question of Fact reached as the result of a judicial examination or investigation by a court, jury, referee, Coroner, etc. A recital of the facts as found. The word commonly applies to the result reached by a judge or jury. [bolding mine]

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

If a judge expressly finds [something] he or she is explicitly or clearly stating something.

Sometimes, in legal language, one can infer a judge meant this or that even if he or she did not expressly (clearly) state the thing.

The past tense is found.

You will often see in newspaper articles, expressions like: "The jury found for the plaintiff" (in AmE) and that means that claims made or brought by a plaintiff or respondent have been agreed to by the jury.

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