Mortmain - Law Dictionary Search Results

Mortification

Mortification, a term of Scottish law, synonymous with the English 'mortmain.'

legislature in the Public Libraries Act, is in the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, s. 6, and in the

said to 'savour of the realty,' and prior to the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1891, could not be bequeathed to

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in order to avoid a harsh law, as that of mortmain or a feudal forfeiture; it was a mere invention in

the period prescribed by the perpetuity rule. (3) Limitations in mortmain, and to charitable uses. Church property is not embraced by

e.g., the titles CHAM-PERTY; RESTRAINT OF MARRIAGE; RESTRAINT OF TRADE; MORTMAIN. Thus it is against public policy to allow an action

that the judgment was not collusively made to avoid the mortmain statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253.

to the lord of the fee.' See CHARITABLE USES AND MORTMAIN. The concluding chapter of Magna Charta sets forth that its

est immortalis, manus pro possessione et mortua pro immortali [Lat.], Mortmain (dead hand) because it is an immortal possession; 'manus' stands

Amortize, to alienate lands in mortmain.

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