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The terms moot, mootness and moot point are used both in English and in American law, although with significantly different meanings. [1] In the legal system of the United States, a matter is "moot" if further legal proceedings with regard to it can have no effect, or events have placed it beyond the reach of the law. Thereby the matter has ...
Moot may refer to: Mootness , in American law: a point where further proceedings have lost practical significance; whereas in British law: the issue remains debatable Moot court , an activity in many law schools where participants take part in simulated court proceedings
Moot court is a co-curricular activity at many law schools. Participants take part in simulated court or arbitration proceedings, usually involving drafting memorials or memoranda and participating in oral argument. In many countries, the phrase "moot court" may be shortened to simply "moot" or "mooting".
Although the word moot or mote is of Old English origin, deriving from the verb to meet, it has come to have a wider meaning throughout the United Kingdom; initially referring to any popular gathering. In England, the word folkmoot in time came to mean a more specific local assembly with recognised legal rights. In Scotland the term is used in ...
"In US English, a moot point is one of no importance, whereas in British English, it is a critical or decisive issue, from which many other decisions may follow." I'm British and I've always understood the phrase to have the "American" meaning ascribed to it here.
Since is used as an adverb or a preposition to imply the same meaning as "after then" or "from" in a sentence. Sense is a noun meaning any method to gather data about an environment. Standard: I have known her since last year. Standard: My sense of smell is weak. Non-standard: I won't go sense I have no fuel. Non-standard: I can since your aura.
A moot point in British English has historically meant a point that is worth debating, but the meaning is shifting towards that in US English of a point that is irrelevant or academic. [ 7 ] A " steep learning curve " was used in psychology from the 1920s to describe the quick and easy acquisition of skill; it was adopted more widely in the ...
A malapropism is "the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one." The use of the word mute in place of moot is by clear definition a malapropism, in the exact the same way that the use of "squash" in place of "quash" is a malapropism in a disturbingly increasing number of Internet news articles about legal proceedings. (In any ...