Asterisk also called star are used to indicate footnotes, references or omissions.

. The note indicated by the asterisk is usually placed at the

bottom margin of a document.

Example:
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno imagined a dialogue with Diokno* where he would stress the need for citizens and authorities to abide by the
Constitution and uphold human rights.

(The footnote is then explained at the bottom of the page.)

* Jose "Pepe" Wright Diokno (February 26, 1922 February 27, 1987) was a Filipino nationalist. He served as Senator of the Philippines,
Secretary of Justice, founding chair of the Commission on Human Rights, and founder of the Free Legal Assistance Group. He is the only person to
top both the Philippine Bar Examination and the board exam for Certified Public Accountants (CPA).

Virgule used to indicate or options, fractions, dates, breaks in poems, used as per, and in abbreviations. The slash or virgule is a forward
sloping line (/) that serves as a mark of punctuation. Also called an oblique, an oblique stroke, a diagonal, a solidus, a forward slash, and a
separatrix.

The slash is commonly used to:

signify alternatives (and/or)
separate the parts of a fraction (2/3), date (1/1/2017), or Internet address (http:// . . .)
mark line divisions in poetry quoted within running text

Example:

It is prohibited to wear rubber shoes/slippers in law school class.

On 9/23/17, 24 hours after the crime, the victim filed for a rape case against Mr. Valenzuela.

I think that I shall never see / A grade as lovely as a three / A three thats made of blood and sweat / When failing is a serious threat.

The court stenographer can transcribe 200 words/minute.

Em-dash (long dash) indicate a sudden break in a sentence to amplify, define, explain or summarize the matters before the dash.
En-dash (short dash) means through or up to.

Example:
The essence of due process is distilled in the immortal cry of Themistocles to Alcibiades Strike but hear me first! It is this cry that the petitioner in
effect repeats here as he challenges the constitutionality of Executive Order No. 626-A.

Justice Isagani Cruz

Ynot vs. IAC [1987]

Traditio longa manu [delivery by the long hand] delivery by consent or mere pointing*

*[See 4 Manresa 148-149]

Ancheta v. Guersey-Dalayyon
490 SCRA 140
(2006)
As it now stands, Art. XII, Secs. 7 and 8 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution explicitly prohibits non-Filipinos from acquiring or holding title to
private lands or to lands of the public domain.

Ampersand (&) symbolizes and and short-cuts the word. The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the word "and"
(a conjunction). It originated as a ligature of the letters et, Latinfor "and".

Metropolitan Waterworks & Sewerage

System v. Court of Appeals
215 SCRA 783
 (1992)

Et al. is defined as an abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alia which means "and others." An example of et. al.
used as an abbreviation is in the sentence, "The article was written by Smith, Jones, Paul, et al."
which means that Smith, Jones, Paul and others wrote the article.