Moot Hall - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: moot hallMoot-hall, or Moot-house
Moot-hall, or Moot-house, council-chamber, hall of judgment, town-hall....
Moot hall
A hall for public meetings a hall of judgment...
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-man
Moot-man, one of those who used to argue the reader's cases in the Inns of Court. See MOOT-CASE....
Dancing hall
Dancing hall, 'dancing hall' as understood in the ordinary parlance is a place where dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life. In the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a 'restaurant' where a proper dancing floor is provided and the guests entertain themselves by using the floor to the tune of live or recorded music. Simply because the recreation in the shape of dancing is provided along with a posheating place would not make it different than a 'dancing hall' where drinks and eatables are also invariably provided, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. East India Hotels, AIR 1995 SC 419 (423): (1994) 5 SCC 690. [Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951 (33 of 1951), s....
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....
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