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Home Dictionary Name: moot manMoot-man
Moot-man, one of those who used to argue the reader's cases in the Inns of Court. See MOOT-CASE....
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 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....
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female line, the Duke of Athol, sold it to the Crown for 70,000l., being about ten years' purchase of the annual revenue, by the Isle of Man Purchase Act, 1765 (5 Geo. 3, c. 26).The Isle of Man is not subject to British Acts of Parliament unless expressly named therein (as in the Customs Acts, for the purposes of which, by s. 277 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is deemed part of the United Kingdom), being legislated for by its own Parliament, called the House of Keys, but an Isle of Man (Customs) Act, is passed every year by the Imperial Parliament....
Straw, Man of
Straw, Man of, a man of no substance. A transfer of shares, in a company, to such a man is good, subject to its regulations, so as to relieve the transferor from liability to pay calls upon the shares, if the transferee be sui juris, and there be no resulting trust for the transferor [see De Pass's case, (1859) 4 De G. & J. 544], and unless the Stannaries Act, 1869, s. 35, applies; and see CONTRIBUTORY. Likewise the assignee o a lease may escape liability on the covenants after assignment by 'assigning over' to a man of straw....
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