Point reserved

A point or question of law, which the court, not being fully satisfied how to decide, in the trial of a cause, rules in favor of the plaintiff, 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. Tr. & II. Pr. § 708. It must be a pure question of law; the facts on which it is based must appear on the record, distinctly stated; and it must be a point which is decisive of the case. The verdict must be in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant then moves for a new trial and judgment non obstante veredicto. See Non Obstante Veredicto. Statements of fact and of the law applicable thereto submitted to a trial judge with a request that he so charge tjie jury. See Brief; Paper Book; Charge; Instruction.

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."

Defined under Point in Black's Law Dictionary.