Mortmain
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(mõrt´mn´´) [Fr.,=dead hand], ownership of land by a perpetual corporation.
Mortmain
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MORTMAIN (0. Fr. mortemain; med. Lat. mortua manus,, dead hand), the state or condition of lands or tenements when held by a corporation in perpetual or inalienable tenure.
Mortmain
Definition - Noun
[Anglo-French, from Old French mortemain, from morte (feminine of mort dead, from Latin mortuus) + main hand, from Latin manus] ...
Expanded Legal Definition of MisprisionMortmain Statutes Statutes of ancient English law which prevented the transfer of real property to or from corporations in general, or to or from religious corporations in particular.
Uses were introduced into England by the ecclesiastics in the reign of Edward Ill or Richard II, for the purpose of avoiding the statutes of mortmain; and the clerical chancellors of those times held them to be fidei commissa, ...
mortmain, a statute restricting the conveyance of land to the "dead hand" of a religious organization
oyez, often calqued as hear ye!, a traditional cry used to open court proceedings, still used in the Supreme Court of the United States.
it is the reduction of the property of lands or tenements to mortmain. Mortmain is an unlawful alienation of lands, or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal.
ALIENATION, Estates. Alienation is an act whereby one man transfers the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, to another. It is commonly applied to lands or tenements, as to alien (that is, to convey) land in fee, in mortmain.
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