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Concerning the law rather concerning the facts. … [Read more...] about POINT OF LAW

Pertaining or relating to the policy or the administration of government, state or national. See People v. Morgan, 90 111. 558; In re Kemp, 16 Wis. 396. Political arithmetic. An expression sometimes used to signify the art of making calculations on matters relating to a nation; the revenues, the value of land and effects; the produce of lands and manufactures; the population, … [Read more...] about POLITICAL

A point or question of law which the court, not being fully satisfied how to decide, in the hurried trial of a cause, rules in favor of the party offering it, but subject to revision on a motion for a new trial. If, after argument, it be found to have been ruled correctly, the verdict is supported; if otherwise, it is set aside . … [Read more...] about POINT RESERVED

The acceptance of a person in an emigrating country who has fled one's home country for fear of persecution. … [Read more...] about POLITICAL ASYLUM

construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense. 2. Points are not usually put in legislative acts or in deeds: Eunom. Dial. 2, Section 33, p. 239; yet, in construing them, the courts must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole. 4 T. R. 65. 3. The points are the comma, the … [Read more...] about POINTS