question of law

Noun

 * 1)  An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law.
 * 2)  A question that the law itself has authoritatively answered, so that the court may not answer it as a matter of discretion.
 * 3)  An issue about what the law is on a particular point; an issue in which the parties argue about, and the court must decide, what the true rule of law is.
 * 4)  An issue that, although it may turn on a factual point, is reserved for the court and excluded from the jury; an issue that is exclusively within the province of the judge and not the jury.

Translations

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rettsspørsmål
 * Nynorsk: rettsspørsmål