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Mortmain

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dead hand

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Charitable uses and trusts

Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna

Forfeiture

1870), subject to certain provisoes, enables aliens to hold real and personal property. See ALIEN. (3) Alienation in mortmain, or to any kind of corporation (which was supposed to hold property in a dead hand locked up

Uses

trust unlawful, which was created for fradulent purposes, so as to defraud creditors, to defeat the Statute of Mortmain, and the like. If the two following statutes be compared, it will be manifest that Parliament did not

Charities, or Public Trusts

permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian

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