All questions of law including the admissibility of testimony, the facts preliminary to such admission, and the construction of statutes and other writings, and other rules of evidence, are to be decided by the court, and all discussions of law addressed to it.
RCW 4.44.080
Questions of law to be decided by court.
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case State v. Abrams (2008)
Most recently applied in Campidoglio LLC v. Wells Fargo & Co. (September 2017)
Code 1881 s 223; 1877 p 47 s 227; 1869 p 56 s 227; RRS s 342.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.