Point

A single distinct proposition or principle of law. 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.

In Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case. It is the duty of a judge to charge the jury on every point of law properly arising j out of the issue which is propounded to j him by counsel. But where the conclusion I of a point does not necessarily How from j the premise contained in the first part of it, j it is not error for the court to refuse to affirm it; Bnscom v. Mfg. Co., 182 Pa. 427, 38 Atl. 510.

A distinct proposition or question of law arising or propounded in a case.

— Point reserved. When, in the progress of the trial of a cause, an important or difficult point of law is presented to the court, and the court is not certain of the decision that should be given, it may reserve the point, that is, decide it provisionally as it is asked by the party, but reserve its more mature consideration for the hearing on a motion for a new trial, when, if it shall appear that the first ruling was wrong, the verdict will be set aside. The point thus treated la technically called a "point reserved."

— Points. The distinct propositions of law, or chief heads of argument, presented by a party in his paper-book, and relied upon, on the argument of the cause. Also the marks used in punctuation. Duncan v. Kohler, 37 Minn. 379, 34 N. W. 594; Commonwealth Ins. Co. v. Pierro, 6 Minn. 570 (Gil. 404).

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Any question, particularly of law, arising in connection with the determination of a cause. Points for the court's charge are prenerally isolated, often abstract, propositions, framed not so much upon the real aspect of the evidence as to express the extremes of the case, and lead to the expression of opinion upon the theoretical rather than upon the practical questions.^ Statutes require that the answer of the judge or court afiirming or rejecting a point as a correct statement of law shall be reduced to writing. See Reserve, 6.

Is used technically to signify any distinct question or matter, particularly of law, arising in a cause; as in the expression, the court did not decide the point.