Mootness Doctrine - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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
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 ...
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....
D'Oench doctrine
D'Oench doctrine [from D'Oench, Duhme & Co., Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Company, 315 U.S. 447 (1942), the Supreme Court case establishing the doctrine] : a doctrine in banking law: a party (as a borrower or guarantor) cannot assert an unrecorded agreement with a failed bank against attempts by the federal insurer (as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) or its assigns to collect on a promissory note (as a loan) called also D'Oench Duhme doctrine ...
exculpatory no doctrine
exculpatory no doctrine : a doctrine in federal criminal law: an individual cannot be charged with making a false statement if the statement is a false denial of guilt made in response to a federal investigator's question NOTE: This doctrine is based on the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, and is often used as a defense to a charge of knowingly making a false statement. The doctrine is recognized in most federal Courts of Appeals. ...
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