Moot

* To debate, make the subject of contention. For exercise in arguing; for the purpose of pleading or trying mock causes or issues: as, a moot court. Moot; mooted. Debated, undecided: as, a mooted question. The covu-ts will not give an opinion upon a moot or fictitious case."

See Fictitious.

MORAXi.^ 1.

Conformed to rules of right: as, a moral character, q. v. 3. Condemned on ethical considerations; perpetrated or existing in fact: as, moral fraud, g. v. 3. Not of legal sanction; not imposed or enforced by positive law; opposed to legal, immoral: as, a moral — consideration, duty, obligation, qq. v. See also Right, 1.

4.

Inhering in the affections, inclinations, and temper: as, moral insanity, q. v. 5. Sufi Bcient in degree to authorize action; established by proof, beyond a reasonable doubt: as, moral — certainty, evidence, proof, qq.v.

Morals.

Manners, conduct, deportment. Offenses against good morals include indecency, obscenity, lascivious carriage, exposures of the person, public drunkenness, gambling, and the like.' A contract opposed to good morals, that is, sound » L. Tnonere^ to remind, Advise. a White v. Luning, 93 U. S. 534-25 (1676); Land Co. v. Saunders, 103 id. 316 (1880); Morse v. Rogers, 118 Mass. 678 (1875), cases. > See Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. 204 (1860); Cooke v. Millard, 65 N. Y. 363 (1875). < A. S. -mot, a meeting. » Bartemeyer v. Iowa, 18 Wall. 135 (1873). morality., will not be enforced by the courts; as, an obligation resting upon any immoral consideration, a contract which is an incentive to crime, offensive to decency, or pernicious in its consequences. See Legal, Illegal. As the end of fiuman law is to regulate the behavior of men as members of society, they have no concern with other than social or relative duties. The man who keeps his wickedness to himself, and does not offend against the rules of public decency, is out of the reach of such laws. But if he makes his vices public, though they be such as seem principall.y to affect himself, they then become, by their example, of pernicious effects to society; and, therefore, it is then the business of human laws to correct them. Public sobriety is a relative duty, enjoined by the laws.* Bee Obscene; Police, 2; Religion; Sdndat.