Mooring

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.

Jnmaritimelaw. Anchoring or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by eables and anchors or bya line or chain ran to the wharf. A vessel is “moored in safety,” within the meaning of a@ policy of marine insurance, when she is thus moored to a wharf or dock, free from any immediate danger from any of the perils insured against. See 1 Phil. Ins. 968,

mar. law. The act of arriving of a ship or vessel at a particular port, and there being anchored or otherwise fastened to the shore. Policies of insurance frequently contain a provision that the ship is insured from one place to another, “and till there moored twentyfour hours in good safety.” As to what shall be a sufficient mooring see 1 Marsh. Ins. 262; Park. on in the inns of court, exercise of arguing which young barristers used to pertorm at certain better to be enabled by to defend their client’s moot question is one been decided.