In law, a question of law, also known as a point of law, is a question that must be answered by applying relevant legal principles to the interpretation...

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian...

consideration of circumstances. This is an extremely deferential standard. In administrative law, a government agency's resolution of a question of fact, when...

In the law of the United States, a certified question is a formal request by one court from another court, usually but not always in another jurisdiction...

The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative...

applicable principles of law or the contract. However, this body of case law has been called into question by recent decisions of the Supreme Court. Unfortunately...

cases (a "matter of first impression"), and legislative statutes (also called "positive law") are either silent or ambiguous on the question, judges have...

Some: Law and the Question of Palestine is a 2019 book by Noura Erakat which explores the relationship between international law and the politics of the...

law is an independent source of law in common law systems. Elizabeth Y. McCuskey, Clarity and Clarification: Grable Federal Questions in the Eyes of Their...

rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information. In many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, as a means of displaying...

of the other party to the contract. Contract theory is a large body of legal theory that addresses normative and conceptual questions in contract law...

pattern of behavior within a particular social setting. A claim can be carried out in defense of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Customary...

the Jewish Question (German: Endlösung der Judenfrage, pronounced [ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ deːɐ̯ ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaːɡə] ) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals...

Lothian question, also known as the English question, is a political issue in the United Kingdom. It concerns the question of whether members of Parliament...

the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the...

The major questions doctrine is a principle of statutory interpretation applied in United States administrative law cases which states that courts will...

cogent opinion, the question of law involved requires careful consideration by a Constitution Bench of this Court for the benefit of humanity as a whole...

Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...

compliance with a ruling of a court in another jurisdiction; and choice of law, which addresses the question of which substantive laws will be applied in such...

to Black's Law Dictionary, a leading question is a "question that suggests the answer to the person being interrogated; esp., a question that may be...

The Jewish question was a wide-ranging debate in 19th- and 20th-century Europe that pertained to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews. The debate...

the opinion of H. V. Evatt of the High Court of Australia, "sovereignty is neither a question of fact, nor a question of law, but a question that does not...

Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical...

of India, the President of India may refer to the Supreme Court of India, a question of law or fact which, he thinks, is of public importance. It is...

Kaliningrad question is a political question concerning the status of Kaliningrad Oblast as an exclave of Russia, and its isolation from the rest of the Baltic...

courts of assizes and courts of appeal (appeals-in-cassation). The Court only reviews questions of law (but not questions of fact) and bears ultimate responsibility...

The law of evidence, also known as the rules of evidence, encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding...

constitutional law, the political question doctrine holds that a constitutional dispute that requires knowledge of a non-legal character or the use of techniques...

with hundreds of members are generally deemed to be sufficiently numerous. To satisfy commonality, there must be a common question of law and fact such...

In Canadian law, a reference question or reference case (formally called abstract review) is a submission by the federal or a provincial government to...