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PUNCTUATION, construction. The act or method of placing points (q.v.) in a written or printed instrument.
     2. By the word point is here understood all the points in grammar, as the comma, the semicolon, the colon, and the like.
     3. All such instruments are to be construed without any regard to the punctuation; and in a case of doubt, they ought to be construed in such a manner that they may have some effect, rather than in one in which they would be nugatory. Vide Toull. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 5, n. 430; 4 T. R. 65; Barringt. on the Stat. 394, n. Vide article Points.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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Mr Collins said: "The special coded system of question marks and ticks and crosses, that's actually slightly unusual.
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The 126 works on show--paintings, lithographs, silk screens, collages, photographs--were eclectic and uneven, but the often jarring contrasts of these different artistic spaces multiply the question marks within that other space which is the Western viewer's mindset, With the exception of Hong Hao, seen in the 1998 traveling exhibition "Inside Out: New Chinese Art," the rising stars of China's international avant-garde were conspicuously absent.
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He has set up a forum on the council's intranet entitled Question Mark so council staff can see what he gets up to and put questions and ideas to him.
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