Mooring
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In maritime law
The securing of a vessel by a hawser or chain, or otherwise, to the shore, or to the bottom by a cable and anchor. The being "moored in safety," under a -policy of insurance, is being moored in port, or at the usual place for landing and taking in cargo, free from any immediate impending peril insured against.
1 Phil. Ins. 968; 3 Johns. (N. Y.) 88; 11 Johns. (N. Y.) 358; 2 Strange, 1243; 5 Mart. (La.) 637; 6 Mass. 313; Code de Comm. 152.
MOOT (from Saxon gemot, meeting together).
In English law
A term used in the inns of court, signifying the exercise of arguing imaginary cases, which young barristers and students used to perform at certain times, the better to be enabled by this practice to defend their clients' cases. Orig. Jur. 212. sense of debate being from meeting, encountering. A moot question is one which has not been decided.