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mortmain statute
mortmain statute : a statute that prohibits corporate bodies (as charities) from
statute of mortmain
statute of mortmain :mortmain statute
Qude jus
that the judgment was not collusively made to avoid the mortmain statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253.
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Mortmain
Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state … ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268. By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious
Uses
so as to defraud creditors, to defeat the Statute of Mortmain, and the like. If the two following statutes be compared,
Forfeiture
hold real and personal property. See ALIEN. (3) Alienation in mortmain, or to any kind of corporation (which was supposed to … than under a licence under the Crown or of a Statute shall be forfeited to the Crown or the mesne lord.
Charities, or Public Trusts
degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was … every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distribution, it is not impossible that the same
Trust
not upon private trusts, by reason of the Statutes of Mortmain, unless the trustee is a Trust Corporation or the Public … his ability to dispose of it at law. The (English) Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 7 [reproduced
use
employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response, … entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of it see also trust Statute of Uses in the Important Laws section NOTE: Uses originated
Park
34 Vict. c. 13, repealed and re-enacted by the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Trusts Act, 1888, proceeding on the Preamble that … of land for such purposes, shall be valid, notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain; and see OPEN SPACES. Park, includes not only
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