{"id":363059,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/moot.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"moot","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/moot.html","title":{"rendered":"Moot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vt<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>:<\/b> to make moot &#91;statute of limitations would the effort &#8220;S. R. Sontag&#8221;&#93; <br \/> adj  &#91;(of a trial or hearing) hypothetical, staged for practice, from <i>moot<\/i> hypothetical case for law students, argument, deliberative assembly, from Old English <i>m&#333;t<\/i> assembly, meeting&#93;<br \/>  <b>:<\/b> deprived of practical significance <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> made abstract or purely academic &#91;the case became when the defendant paid the sum at issue&#93; see also <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/mootness-doctrine.html\">mootness doctrine<\/a> compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/justiciable.html\">justiciable<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/ripe.html\">ripe<\/a> <br \/>  <b><i>  moot&#183;ness   &#91;m&#252;t-n&#601;s&#93;<br \/>  <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Moot&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-363059","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/363059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=363059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}