FACT AND LAW
A term used to denote issues or events that have
taken place and the legal jurisdiction that governs
how they are viewed. Fact in legal terms, is the
event, while law refers to the actual rules that
determine how facts are viewed by the courts.
Lawyers and courts may separate fact and law to
differentiate them; thus, a QUESTION OF FACT
concerns the actual events of a case as they might
be examined by a jury, while a QUESTION OF LAW
focuses on the legal rules and principles as deter-
