MOORING

In maritime law. Anchor• ing or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a ve el in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chain run to the wharf. A ve el 111 "moored in safety," within the meaning ot a policy of marine insurance, when she ill thus moored to a wharf or dock, free from any immediate danger from any of the perils insured against. See 1 Phil. Ins. 968; Walsh v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 8 Daly (N. Y.) 387; Flandreau v. Elswprth, 9 Misc. Rep.,340, 29 N. Y. Supp. 694; Bramhall v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co,, 104 Ma . 5-16, 6 Am. Rep. 261. MOOT, n. In English law. Moots are exercises in pleading, and in arguing doubt· ful cp.ses and questions, by the students of an inn of court before the benchers of the inn. Sweet In Saxon law. A meeting or a emblage of people, 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, MOOT, adj. A subject for argument; unsettled; undegtded. A moot poi_nt 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 R. I. 134, 42 Atl. 515, 44 L. 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. MOOTA CANUM, In old English law. A pack of dogs. Cowell. [s. 797]