Mortmain - Law Dictionary Search Results
Park
(1872) LR 8 QB 118. Gifts for Parks.-By 34 Vict. c. 13, repealed and re-enacted by the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Trusts Act, 1888, proceeding on the Preamble that it is expedient to facilitate gifts of land
Menus mortua, quia possessio est immortalis, manus pro possessione et mortua pro immortali
Menus mortua, quia possessio est immortalis, manus pro possessione et mortua pro immortali [Lat.], Mortmain (dead hand) because it is an immortal possession; 'manus' stands for possession, and 'mortua' for immortal.
Savour
property, or a legacy charged on land, was said to 'savour of the realty,' and prior to the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1891, could not be bequeathed to a charity. To partake of the character of
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Qude jus
a judgment, before its execution, to make sure that the judgment was not collusively made to avoid the mortmain statute, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253.
Public policy
law for the good of the community. See, e.g., the titles CHAM-PERTY; RESTRAINT OF MARRIAGE; RESTRAINT OF TRADE; MORTMAIN. Thus it is against public policy to allow an action to be brought on a promise to marry
Perpetuity
them to take effect, if at all, within the period prescribed by the perpetuity rule. (3) Limitations in mortmain, and to charitable uses. Church property is not embraced by the law of perpetuity. (4) Perpetuities allowed or
Permissive use
was resorted to before the Statute of Uses, in order to avoid a harsh law, as that of mortmain or a feudal forfeiture; it was a mere invention in order to evade the law by secrecy, as
Parish Council
is to manage parish property. They are bodies corporate, having power to hold land without any license in mortmain, and to acquire by agreement land for recreation grounds and other parish purposes, and to acquire land compulsorily
Museum
for the cultiva-tion of science, favoured by the legislature in the Public Libraries Act, is in the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, s. 6, and in the (English) Museums and Gymnasiums Act,1891. Powers were transferred
Mortification
Mortification, a term of Scottish law, synonymous with the English 'mortmain.'
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