Legal Term Dictionary

In maritime law. Anchoring or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chain run to the wharf. A vessel is "moored in safety," within the meaning of a policy of More...

In maritime law. Anchoring or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chain run 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; Walsh v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 8 Daly (N. Y.) 387; Flandreau v. Elsworth, 9 Misc. Rep. 340, 29 N. Y. Supp. 694; Bramhall v. Sun Mut Ins. Co., 104 Mass. 516, 6 Am. Rep. 261. Less...

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 people, particularly for governmental or judicial purposes. The more usual forms More...

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 people, particularly for governmental or judicial purposes. The more usual forms of the word were "mote" and "gemot" See those titles. -Moot Kill. 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. Less...

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 R. I. 134, 42 Ati. More...

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 R. I. 134, 42 Ati. 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 Less...

In old English law. A pack of dogs. Cowell.

In old English law. A pack of dogs. Cowell. Less...

The exercise of arguing questions of law or equity, raised for the purpose. See MOOT.

The exercise of arguing questions of law or equity, raised for the purpose. See MOOT. Less...

Lat In the civil law. Delay: default; neglect; culpable delay or default Calvin.

Lat In the civil law. Delay: default; neglect; culpable delay or default Calvin. Less...

Sax. A moor; barren or unprofitable ground; marsh; a heath; a watery bog or moor. Go. Litt 5; Fleta, L 2" c. 71. -Mora mviu, A watery or boggy moor; a morass. Mora reprobatnr in lege. Delay is reprobated in law. Jenk. Cent p. 51, case 97.

Sax. A moor; barren or unprofitable ground; marsh; a heath; a watery bog or moor. Go. Litt 5; Fleta, L 2" c. 71. -Mora mviu, A watery or boggy moor; a morass. Mora reprobatnr in lege. Delay is reprobated in law. Jenk. Cent p. 51, case 97. Less...

1. Pertaining or relating to the conscience or moral sense or to the general principles of right conduct. "2. Cognizable or enforceable only by the conscience or by the principles of right conduct as distinguished from positive law." "3. Depending upon or resulting from probability; raising a belief or conviction More...

1. Pertaining or relating to the conscience or moral sense or to the general principles of right conduct. "2. Cognizable or enforceable only by the conscience or by the principles of right conduct as distinguished from positive law." "3. Depending upon or resulting from probability; raising a belief or conviction in the mind independent of strict or logical proof." "4. Involving or affecting the moral sense; as in the phrase "moral insanity."" -Moral actions. Those only in which men have knowledge to guide them, and a will to choose for themselves. Ruth. Inst lib. 1, c i. -Moral certainty. In the law of criminal evidence. That degree of assurance which induces a man of sound mind to act without doubt, upon the conclusions to which it leads. Wills. Circ. Ev. 7. A certainty that convinces and directs the understanding and satisfies the reason and judgment of those who are bound to act conscientiously upon it State v. Orr, 64 Mo. 339; Bradley v. Stote, 31 Ind. 492; Ross v. Montana Union Ry. Co. (C. C.) 45 Fed. 425; Pharr v. State, 10 Tex. App. 485; Territory v. McAndrews, 3 Mont 158. A high degree of impression of the truth of a fact, falling short of absolute certainty, but sufficient to justify a verdict of guilty, even in a capital case. See Burrill, Circ. Bv. 198-200. The phrase "moral certainty" has been introduced into our jurisprudence from the publicists and metaphysicians, and signifies only a very high degree of probability. It was observed by Puf-fendorf that, "when we declare such a thing to be morally certain, because it has been confirmed by credible witnesses, this moral certitude is nothing else but a strong presumption grounded on probable reasons, ana which very seldom fails and deceives us." "Probable evidence," says Bishop Butler, in the opening sentence of his Analogy, "is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this: that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption." Com. v. Costley, 118 Mass. 23.-Moral evidenoe. See EVIOENCE.-Moral fraud. This phrase is one of the less usual designations of "actual" or "positive" fraud or "fraud in fact," as distinguished from "constructive" fraud or "fraud in law." It means fraud which involves actual guilt, a wrongful purpose, or moral obliquity.-Moral haaard. See HAZARD.-Moral insanity. See INSANITY.- Moral law. The law of conscience; the aggregate of those rules and principles of ethics which relate to right and wrong conduct and prescribe the standards to which the actions of men should conform in their dealings with each other. See Moore v. Strickling, 46 W. Va. 515, 33 S. E. 274, 50 L. R. A. 279.-Moral obligation. See OBLIGATION. Less...

Lat. For the purpose of delaying or post* poning payment or performance.

Lat. For the purpose of delaying or post* poning payment or performance. Less...

Lat. He delays in law. The phrase describes the action of one who demurs, because the party does, not proceed in pleading, but rests or abides upon the judgment of the court on a certain point as to the legal sufficiency of his opponent's pleading. The court deliberate and determine More...

Lat. He delays in law. The phrase describes the action of one who demurs, because the party does, not proceed in pleading, but rests or abides upon the judgment of the court on a certain point as to the legal sufficiency of his opponent's pleading. The court deliberate and determine thereupon. Less...