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Mortmain

//ˈmɔɹt.meɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church. uncountable, usually

    "1824, Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, [W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]"

  2. 2
    the oppressive influence of past events or decisions wordnet
  3. 3
    A strong and inalienable possession. literary, uncountable, usually

    "[…]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, […]"

  4. 4
    real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) wordnet

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mortmayn, morte meyn, from Old French mortes meins, after Late Latin phrase mortua manus. See Latin mortuus (“dead”) + manus (“hand”).

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