Moot

Moot - A moot case or a moot point is one not subject to a judicial determination because it involves an abstract question or a pretended controversy that has not yet actually arisen or has already passed.

Moot Court
(n) A moot Court is a symbolic court set by students and associations etc to conduct a trial on a fictitious issue or lawsuit. Moot court is used as a propaganda for any specific issue or as a learning and analyzing process.

Moot: Unsettled; undecided. A moot point is one not settled by judicial decisions.
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Moot:
Also called a "moot point": a side issue, problem or question which does not have to be decided to resolve the main issues in a dispute.

Moot
No longer requiring a decision. For example, if a party would no longer be affected by the decision in a case, the case might become moot.

Moot - not subject to a court ruling because the controversy has not actually arisen, or has ended.
Motion - A document filed with the court seeking to obtain a ruling or order from the court that is favorable to the party filing a motion.

moot: (adj.) unsettled, undecided, not necessary to be decided
motion: an oral or written request to the court made by a party for a ruling or order
movant: the party who initiates the motion ...

moot court
n. law school exercise in which students argue both sides of an appeal from a fictitious lawsuit in a mock court. There are also moot court contests between teams from different law schools.

moot - A moot point is one that need not be decided, due to a change of circumstances.
moral turpitude - Conduct contrary to honesty or good morals.
motion - A formal request presented to a court.

moot A term describing a case or an issue that is no longer important; e.g., when a party brings a motion to compel answers to interrogatories but the other party supplies the answers before the motion is heard, the motion becomes moot.

moot: A point or question related to a legal case that usually has no practical importance or relevance to the case. A moot point is a point that can't be resolved by the judge, is not disputed by either side, or is resolved out of court.

Moot
A situation, side issue, problem or question which does not have to be decided to resolve the main issues in a dispute. Also called a "moot point".

Moot
Definition - Transitive Verb
: to make moot <statute of limitations would ~ the effort ­S. R. Sontag>
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moot - A case is moot when a determination sought on a matter cannot have any practical effect on the existing controversy.
moral turpitude - A formal request presented to a court.
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moot - A subject for argument; unsettled; undecided. A moot point is one not settled by judicial decisions.

The separate ballots for President and Vice President became something of a moot issue later in the 19th century when it became the norm for popular elections to determine a state's Electoral College delegation.

As far as admissibility of evidence is concerned, the issue ought to be moot as any information obtained under duress leaves little place for truth and, generally, ...

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