Moot Court (1788?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Mon Oct 28 03:59:26 UTC 2002
What is the earliest date for "moot court"?
OED's entry is dreadful. The first entry is allegedly by Thomas Jefferson from 1788, but it's cited from a book published about 70 years later. The Library of Congress's American Memory database has a large volume of Jefferson's work online now. There are _no_ "moot court" hits on that database!
OED's next citation is 1899--111 years later! Obviously, they're working on this. What do they have?
OCLC WorldCat has a book titled JOURNAL OF THE LAW-SCHOOL, AND THE MOOT-COURT ATTACHED TO IT AT NEEDHAM, IN VIRGINIA (1821). Was this before the Harvard or Yale Law Schools?
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