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Inalienably
In a manner that forbids alienation as rights inalienably vested
Donis conditionalibus, Statute de
given, it shall be void in law.' The intolerable mischief introduced by this statute, viz., the creation of inalienable estates tail, was got rid of by the fictitious proceedings of common recoveries, which were abolished by the
Tail
in default of issue, the land should revert to the donor or his heirs. Estates-tail were thus made inalienable, and neither the issue nor the remainder-man could be barred. And many other inconvenient consequences were produced, which
Mortmain
Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in dead hand--in a hand that cannot shift away the property. It
Magna Carta
that at Lincoln. Magna Charta was not firmly established as the common law of the realm and the inalienable right of the subject for nearly a century after the conferences at Runningmede, during which period the country
Highways
(22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or
Annexation
Annexation, the union of lands to the Crown, and declaring them inalienable. Also the appropriation of the church lands by the Crown, and the union of land lying at a
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