How To Use Mortmain In A Sentence
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Royal licences to acquire property in mortmain allowed for a period of expansion into adjacent properties in the early 14th century.
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mortgage, literally a “dead pledge”; a pledge by which the landowner remained in possession of the property he staked as security. mortmain, a statute restricting the conveyance of land to the “dead hand” of a religious organization oyez, often calqued as hear ye!,
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
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a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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I want us to look like a viable family, Mortmain, for Rose's sake.
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Hospitals and poor houses found the charitable bequests on which they had always relied dwindling, and, as ecclesiastical institutions, they were cut off from further endowments by legislation of 1749 restricting mortmain.
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We meet with other forms of tenure in the partition of land in the days of the French régime -- for instance, _franc aleu noble_ and _franc aumone_ or _mortmain_, but these were exceptional grants to charitable, educational, or religious institutions, and were subject to none of the ordinary obligations of the feudal tenure, but required, as in the latter case, only the performance of certain devotional or other duties which fell within their special sphere.
Lord Elgin
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mortmain, a statute restricting the conveyance of land to the “dead hand” of a religious organization oyez, often calqued as hear ye!
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
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The "oppressive past influence" sense of both "mortmain" and "dead hand" developed from the idea of the dead exercising posthumous control over their property by dictating how it must be used after they die.
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The windows blocked all sound, and there was nothing audible in this room at all save the faint ticking of a wall clock with mortmain and company engraved on the face in gold.
Clockwork Angel
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New laws on mortmain limited the size of donations that might be bequeathed to religious foundations.
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All Catholic governments tightened up legislation against mortmain.
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placet," taken measures to restrict mortmain (which exempted Church property from taxation), and had obtained the right to designate bishops.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
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The other frogmen hesitated in the treetops, glancing at one another as if they knew the Mortmaine were nothing to tangle with.
Slice Of Cherry
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mortmain" were for this reason always regarded as wrong in principle, though the loss occasioned to the feudal lord by the cessation of reliefs, escheats, wardships, marriages, etc., when the land was made over to ecclesiastical uses could not be denied.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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On the last occasion the king ennobled him, As prime minister he was most zealous in establishing the supremacy of the State over the Church, and in abolishing the privileges of the nobility together with feudalism, He restricted the jurisdiction of the bishops, impeded the last increment of the so-called mortmain, and reduced the taxes belonging to the chancery of the Roman Curia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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mortmain", a word coined to represent the condition where land has come into the possession of a dead hand, or in Latin mortua manus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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It is to this inalienability of all the possessions of the Church, which like the "hand of a dead man" never loosens its grip of what it once has clutched, that the prejudice already referred to against property held in "mortmain" grew up in the thirteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Alexandria, built over the grave a place of visitation and endowed it with mortmain writing over the door these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever.
Paras. 50-74
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The rest was in the hands of the Church and nobility, protected against sale by entail or mortmain, or owned by urban corporations, or bourgeois landowners.
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Property was kept away from perpetual corporations such as the Church by the doctrine of mortmain.
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