Points

Points

In the Past

Marks in writing and in print, to show the stops that ought to be made in reading and to point out the sense.

Developments

Points are not usually put in legislative acts or in deeds: Eunom. Dial. 2, 33, p. 239; yet, in construing them, the courts must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole. 4 T. R. 65.

Details

The points are the comma, the semi-colon, the colon, the full point, the point of interrogation and exclamation. Barr. on the Stat. 294, note; vide Punctuation. [1]

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Notes and References

1. Partialy, this information about points is based on the Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier's Law Dictionary, including points.

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