(noun) – 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.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.
(adjective) – 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