Moot

moot : to make moot [statute of limitations would the effort "S. R. Sontag"] adj [(of a trial or hearing) hypothetical, staged for practice, from moot hypothetical case for law students, argument, deliberative assembly, from Old English mōt assembly, meeting] : deprived of practical significance : made abstract or purely academic [the case became when the defendant paid the sum at issue] see also mootness doctrine compare justiciable, ripe moot·ness [müt-nəs] n ...

mootness doctrine

mootness doctrine : a doctrine in judicial procedure: a court will not hear or decide a moot case unless it includes an issue that is not considered moot because it involves the public interest or constitutional questions and is likely to be repeated and otherwise evade review or resolution ...

Moot-case or Moot-point

Moot-case or Moot-point, a point or case unsettled and disputable, such as properly affords a topic of disputation....

Moot-hall, or Moot-house

Moot-hall, or Moot-house, council-chamber, hall of judgment, town-hall....

Moot-man

Moot-man, one of those who used to argue the reader's cases in the Inns of Court. See MOOT-CASE....

moot court

moot court : a mock court in which law students argue hypothetical cases for practice ...

Moot

Moot [fr. gmot, emot, Sax., meeting together], to plead a mock cause; to state and argue a point of law by way of exercise, as was commonly done in the Inns of Court at appointed times, and has of late years been revived in Gray's Inn....

Moot-hills

Moot-hills, hills of meeting, on which our British ancestors held their great courts....

Reeve

Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE.A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284.Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, the reeve was an indepen-dent official, and the hundred-moot was not a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the others were, lost its importance very quickly. Pleas of land were taken from it, and its criminal jurisdiction limited to one of holding suspects in temporary detention. The reeve of the hundred became the deputy of the...

controversy

controversy pl: -sies 1 : a state of dispute or disagreement [suits at common law, where the value in shall exceed twenty dollars "U.S. Constitution amend. VII"] 2 : a civil action involving a real and immediate dispute between parties with adverse interests NOTE: Article III of the U.S. Constitution gives the judiciary the power to decide cases and controversies. Article III's limitation of the judicial power to cases or controversies requires that an action brought in the federal court involve parties with standing to sue and questions that are ripe and not moot. con·tro·ver·sial [kÄ n-trə-vər-shəl, -vər-sē-əl] adj ...

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