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Mortmain

Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state

statute of mortmain :mortmain statute

mortmain statute : a statute that prohibits corporate bodies (as charities)

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mortmain [Anglo-French, from Old French mortemain, from morte (feminine of mort

and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land

hold real and personal property. See ALIEN. (3) Alienation in mortmain, or to any kind of corporation (which was supposed to

degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was

34 Vict. c. 13, repealed and re-enacted by the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Trusts Act, 1888, proceeding on the Preamble that

so as to defraud creditors, to defeat the Statute of Mortmain, and the like. If the two following statutes be compared,

corporate, having power to hold land without any license in mortmain, and to acquire by agreement land for recreation grounds and

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