Your nitpicking of legal terms aside, you are correct, he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation because it was a civil and not a criminal trial. This was because the criminal statute of limitations had expired by the time the allegation was made public. Lucky for Trump.
Considering she had no evidence or eyewitnesses; she must have been extremely convincing about the sexual abuse since the jury believed her and ruled in her favor.
It's not nitpicking, it's eons of difference.
She didn't have to be convincing. They were getting the decision they wanted regardless.