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matter of law

NOUN
  1. a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide

How To Use matter of law In A Sentence

  • It is a matter of law for the judge to decide whether the defendant has satisfied this evidential burden.
  • The critics may be right as a matter of law, but since the organization began operating in 1946, the charter's mandate has rarely been followed.
  • The district court interpreted the patent using the corrected "osmolality" term, finding that the certificate of correction was proper as a matter of law. Infringement Reversed over Improper Certificate of Correction
  • KAC's primary case is that, as a matter of law, no deduction should be made for betterment.
  • As a matter of law and as a matter of discretion, I think that justice requires the claimant, if it wishes further to prosecute its new claims, to do so in a fresh action.
  • Therefore, the patents at issue directed ‘isolated DNA’ containing sequences found in nature are unsustainable as a matter of law and are deemed unpatentable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gene Patent(s?) Invalidated:
  • It is not possible to conceive of a practice whereby Government binds itself as a matter of law to consult before introducing primary legislation.
  • Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?
  • Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by defendant seller are parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication ( "Readers 'Digest") and the local press (in 1977 and 1982, respectively), defendant is estopped to deny their existence and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted. First Department
  • The legal significance of the events which I recited is, in our submission, a matter of law.
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