moot

A federal court is without power to decide moot questions or to give advisory opinions which cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it.

adj. A subject for argument; unsettled ; undecided. A moot point is one not settled by judicial decisions. A moot case is one which seeks to determine an abstract question which does not arise upon existing facts or rights. Adams v. Union R. Co., 21 It. I. 134, 42 Atl. 515, 44 In R. A. 273.

— Moot court. A court held for the arguing of moot cases or questions.

— Moot hall. The place where moot cases were argued. Also a council-chamber, hall of judgment, or town-hall.

— Moot man. One of those who used to argue the reader's cases in the inns of court.

n. In English law. Moots are exercises in pleading, and in arguing doubtful cases and questions, by the students of an inn of court before the benchers of the inn. Sweet In Saxon law. A meeting or assemblage of pcople, particularly for governmental or judicial purposes. The more usual forms of the word were "mote" and "gemot" See those titles.
—Moot hill. Hill of meeting, (gemot,) on which the Britons used to hold their courts, the judge sitting on the eminence ; the parties, etc., on an elevated platform below. Enc. Lond.

To argue; to argue by way of exercise; to argue a fictitious case in form of law; to agitate a point by argument, without determining it; to raise a question for argument.

adj. A subject for argument;

* 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.