Mortmain

/ˈmɔɹt.meɪn/

Synonyms for "mortmain" (3 found)

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Noun(1 words)
dead hand

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
dead hand of the past

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immovableinfluencereal estatereal propertyrealty

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8 translations across 8 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • mà morta noun (inalienable possession of lands)

Czech

1 entries
  • nezcizitelný pozemek noun (inalienable possession of lands)

Finnish

1 entries
  • pysyvä omistus noun (inalienable possession of lands)

French

1 entries
  • mainmorte noun (inalienable possession of lands)

Italian

1 entries
  • manomorta noun (inalienable possession of lands)

Polish

1 entries
  • martwa ręka noun (inalienable possession of lands)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • метох noun (inalienable possession of lands)

Spanish

1 entries
  • manos muertas noun (inalienable possession of lands)

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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 […]

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Though in truth it was the law of mortmain […] which originally sent the founders of chantries to seek the king's licence […]

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[…]; 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, […]

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