English-Thai Dictionary
mortmain
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
MORTMAIN
n.In law, possession of lands or tenements in dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate. Alienation in mortmain is an alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, particularly to religious houses, by which the estate becomes perpetually inherent in the corporation and unalienable.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
MORTMAIN
Mort "main `, n. Etym: [F. mort, morte, dead + main hand; F. main- morte. See Mortal, and Manual. ] (Law )
Defn: Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
Note: The term was originally applied to conveyance of land made to ecclesiastical bodies; afterward to conveyance made to any corporate body. Burrill.
New American Oxford Dictionary
mortmain
mort main |ˈmôrtˌmān ˈmɔrtmeɪn | ▶noun Law the status of lands or tenements held inalienably by an ecclesiastical or other corporation. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old French mortemain, from medieval Latin mortua manus ‘dead hand ’ (probably alluding to impersonal ownership ).
Oxford Dictionary
mortmain
mortmain |ˈmɔːtmeɪn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Law the status of lands or tenements held inalienably by an ecclesiastical or other corporation. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, Old French mortemain, from medieval Latin mortua manus ‘dead hand ’ (probably alluding to impersonal ownership ).
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