Points
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Bouvier (1839)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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).
Defined under Point in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense. Points are not usually put in legislative acts or in deeds, yet, in construing them, the courts must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole. 4 T. R. 65. The points are the comma, the semicolon, the colon, the full point, the point of interrogation, of exclamation.