question of law

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmatter of law

   Broaderquestion

   law

Questions about question of law

What does question of law mean?

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

What is another word for question of law?

Close synonyms include matter 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 question of law a common word?

question 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.