"Mortmain" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases havlng been chiefly made hy rellglous houses, ln consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of "mortmain" to be applled to such alienations. 2 BL Comm. 268; Co. Lltt 2b; Perln v. Carey, 24 How. 495, 16 L. Ed. 701
Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to,
dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
Read the complete definitionThe reduction of property of lands or tenements to mort-main, in the feudal customs
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Read the complete definitionL. Lat To withhold lands or tenements from the rightful own
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