| Moot
Also called a "moot point": a side issue, problem or question
which does not have to be decided to resolve the main issues in a dispute.
Moot court
Fictional or hypothetical trial, usually hosted by law schools, as training
for future barristers or lawyers.
Misrepresentation
A false and material statement which induces a party to enter into a contract.
This is a ground for rescission of the contract.
Natural justice
A word used to refer to situations where audi alteram partem (the right
to be heard) and nemo judex in parte sua (no person may judge their own
case) apply. The principles of natural justice were derived from the Romans
who believed that some legal principles were "natural" or self-evident
and did not require a statutory basis. These two basic legal safeguards
govern all decisions by judges or government officials when they take
quasi-judicial or judicial decisions.
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