Mootness of civil jurisdiction transfer request due to prior resolution by lower court

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the request for transfer of jurisdiction (strămutare) filed by the appellants, thereby leaving the original proceedings with the Court of Appeal Cluj in force, as the requested transfer was deemed moot. The dispute concerned a civil matter subject to a request to move the case from its competent court, but the procedural timeline revealed that the lower court had already rendered a decision on January 21, 2013, while the respondents subsequently filed a defense on March 7, 2013, seeking dismissal of the transfer request as lacking an object. Relying on the principle that a judicial act must have a live subject matter to be admissible, the court held that the prior resolution of the underlying case by the lower instance extinguished the legal basis for transferring the jurisdiction, resulting in the final and unappealable dismissal of the applicants' petition.