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MOOKTARNAMA. In Hindu law. A written authority constituting an agent; a power of attorney. MOOR. An officer in the Isle of Man, who summons the courts for the several sheadings. The office is similar to the Eng lish bailiff of a hundred. MOORAGE. A sum due by law or usage for mooring or fastening of ships to trees or posts at the shore, or to a wharf. Wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 373. MOORING. In maritime law. Anchor ing' 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. FJsworth, 9 Misc. Rep. 340, 29 N. Y. Supp. 694; Bramhall v. Sun Mut Ins. Co., 104 Mass. 516, 6 Am. Rep. 261. MOOT, n. In English law. Moots are exercises in pleading, and in arguing doubt ful 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 hill. 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. MOOT, adj. A subject for argument; un settled ; 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 Atl. 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. MOOTA CANUM. In old English law. A pack of dogs. Cowell. MOOTING. The exercise of arguing questions of law or equity, raised for the purpose. See MOOT. MORA. Lat In the civil law. Delay; default; neglect; culpable delay or default Calvin.

MONSTRAVERUNT, WRIT OF. In English law. A writ which lies for the tenants of ancient demesne who hold by free charter, and not for those tenants who hold by copy of court roll, or by the rod, accord ing to the custom of the manor. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 14. MONSTRUM. A box in which relics are kept; also a muster of soldiers. Cowell. MONTES. In Spanish law. Forests or woods. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, i I MONTES PIETATIS. Public pawnbrok ing establishments; institutions established by government, in some European countries, for lending small sums of money on pledges of personal property. In France they are called "monts de pi4t6." MONTH. One of the divisions of a year. The space of time denoted by this term varies according as one or another of the following varieties of months is intended: Astronomical, containing one-twelfth of the time occupied by the sun in passing through the entire zodiac. Calender, civil, or solar, which is one of the months in the Gregorian calendar,—Jan uary, February, March, etc.,—which are of unequal length. Lunar, being the period of one revolution of the moon, or twenty-eight days. MONUMENT. 1. Anything by which the memory of a persoo or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Mead v. Case, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 202; In re Ogden, 25 R. I. 373, 55 Atl. 933. 2. In real-property law and surveying, monuments are visible marks or indications left on natural or other objects indicating the lines and boundaries of a survey. In this sense the term includes not only posts, pil lars, stone markers, cairns, and the like, but also fixed natural objects, blazed trees, and even a watercourse. See Grier v. Pennsyl vania Coal Co., 128 Pa. 79, 18 Atl. 480; Cox v. Freedley, 33 Pa. 124, 75 Am. Dec. 584. Monnmenta quae aoi recorda Tocamm •nut veritatis et vetustatis vestigia. Co. Litt 118. Monuments, which we call "rec ords," are the vestiges of truth and antiq uity. MONYA. In Norman law. Moneyage. A tax or tribute of one shilling on every hearth, payable to the duke every three years, in consideration that he should not alter the coin. Hale, Com. Law, 148, and note. MOOKTAR. In Hindu law. An agent or attorney.