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† ˈmootman Obs.
[f. moot v.1 + man n.1]
1. A law student of an Inn of Court; a student who argues a moot case.
1602Coke Rep. iii. To Rdr. D iv, So in the profession of the Law, there are Mootemen, (which are those that argue Readers Cases in houses of Chauncerie..). Of Mootemen after eight yeres Studie or thereabouts, are chosen Vtter⁓barristers. 16..Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 391 In the Constitutions of England, there are two incontroulable Maximes, whereof the meanest mootman that hath but saluted Littleton cannot be ignorant. 1671E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. ii. (1679) 225 Out of these Mootmen are chosen Readers for the Inns of Chancery. 1707Ibid. iii. (ed. 22) 416 The young Student in the Common-Law..is admitted to be one of the four Inns of Court, where he is first called a Moot-man. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 271/2 There is a bailiff, or surveyor of the moots, annually chosen by the bench, to appoint the moot-men for the inns of chancery.
2. Used for: elector 3.
1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. vi. lxxvii. 149 The 7 German Princes or Mootmen, which the Pope constituted to meddle in electing the Emperor. |