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question of law

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.10 in modern English

Syllables
ques-tion of law
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law.

noun

A question that the law itself has authoritatively answered, so that the court may not answer it as a matter of discretion.

noun

An issue about what the law is on a particular point; an issue in which the parties argue about, and the court must decide, what the true rule of law is.

noun

An issue that, although it may turn on a factual point, is reserved for the court and excluded from the jury; an issue that is exclusively within the province of the judge and not the jury.

Inflected Forms

questions of law (plural)

Synonyms

matter of law

Questions

What does question of law mean?
An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law.

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