matter of law

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsquestion of law

   Broaderquestion

   law

Questions about matter of law

What does matter of law mean?

matter of law means "a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide".

What is another word for matter of law?

Close synonyms include question of law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is matter of law a common word?

matter of law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.