{"id":363866,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/point.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"point","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/point.html","title":{"rendered":"Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a particular detail, proposition, or issue of law <br \/>  <i>;specif<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/point-of-error.html\">point of error <\/a> <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> any of various incremental units used in measuring, fixing, or calculating something: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a unit used in calculating a sentence by various factors (as aggravating or mitigating circumstances) <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a unit used in the pricing of securities and valuation of markets <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a charge to a borrower (as a mortgagor) that is equal to one percent of the principal and that is made at closing <br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>in point<\/b><br \/>  <b><i><br \/>  <i>or<\/i><br \/>  <b>on point<\/b><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> relevant to the legal issues at hand <br \/>  <\/b><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Point&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-363866","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/363866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=363866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}