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MORTMAIN (0. Fr. mortemain; med. Lat. mortua manus, dead hand)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 880 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
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
 . Alienation in
mortmain
  having the effect of depriving the lord of the incidents of seignory, which arose through the death or
felony
  of the
tenant
  .or failure of his heirs, many English statutes were passed directed against such alienation. The earliest is that of
Henry
  III. 36 (Magna Carta); others being 7 Edward 1.13 (De Viris Religiosis); 13 Edward I. 32; 15 Richard II. 5; and 23
Henry
  VIII. so. .The present law is regulated by the
Mortmain
  and Charitable Uses Act 1888, as amended by the act of 1891.


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