See as a matter of law on Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "as a matter of law",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "as a matter of law",
"name": "en-PP"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prep_phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law",
"orig": "en:Law",
"parents": [
"Justice",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1839, The Law Journal reports for the year 1839, page 316:",
"text": "The advantages are altogether undefined and uncertain, and cannot, as a matter of law, be set off against the positive injury arising to a man from his character being defamed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1848, The Law Journal reports for the year 1848, page 38:",
"text": "It is not necessary for the barrister to give his reasons, but if we saw enough on the face of the document to shew that the statement was not reasonably sufficient, we should say as a matter of law that his decision was wrong.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1892, John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, volume 19, page 58:",
"text": "When, however, from the evidence, there is a presumption of law, the neglect of the judge to tell the jury that, as a matter of law, certain facts being proved, they must assume certain other facts to be true, or their refusal to do so is ground for a new trial as a matter of right.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1909, The Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 22, p. 524:",
"text": "We reaffirm our opinion that the evidence in this case did not conclusively show that the acts and conduct of appellant at the time were of such nature and character as would, as a matter of law, make him guilty of provoking a difficulty, so as to cut off wholly his right of self-defense.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Stephen N. Subrin, Margaret Y.K. Woo, Litigating in America: Civil Procedure in Context, page 175:",
"text": "...the plaintiff's lawyer and the defendant's lawyer can each stand up and move for judgment as a matter of law in their favor.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Legally; according to the law."
],
"id": "en-as_a_matter_of_law-en-prep_phrase-GJfXwtPe",
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"Legally",
"legally"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) Legally; according to the law."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "operation of law"
}
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"word": "as a matter of law"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "as a matter of law",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "as a matter of law",
"name": "en-PP"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prep_phrase",
"related": [
{
"word": "operation of law"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English prepositional phrases",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Law"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1839, The Law Journal reports for the year 1839, page 316:",
"text": "The advantages are altogether undefined and uncertain, and cannot, as a matter of law, be set off against the positive injury arising to a man from his character being defamed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1848, The Law Journal reports for the year 1848, page 38:",
"text": "It is not necessary for the barrister to give his reasons, but if we saw enough on the face of the document to shew that the statement was not reasonably sufficient, we should say as a matter of law that his decision was wrong.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1892, John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, volume 19, page 58:",
"text": "When, however, from the evidence, there is a presumption of law, the neglect of the judge to tell the jury that, as a matter of law, certain facts being proved, they must assume certain other facts to be true, or their refusal to do so is ground for a new trial as a matter of right.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1909, The Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 22, p. 524:",
"text": "We reaffirm our opinion that the evidence in this case did not conclusively show that the acts and conduct of appellant at the time were of such nature and character as would, as a matter of law, make him guilty of provoking a difficulty, so as to cut off wholly his right of self-defense.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Stephen N. Subrin, Margaret Y.K. Woo, Litigating in America: Civil Procedure in Context, page 175:",
"text": "...the plaintiff's lawyer and the defendant's lawyer can each stand up and move for judgment as a matter of law in their favor.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Legally; according to the law."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"Legally",
"legally"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) Legally; according to the law."
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"word": "as a matter of law"
}
Download raw JSONL data for as a matter of law meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.