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Amortize

Amortize, to alienate lands in mortmain.

be utterly void, and the land shall accrue, to the lord of the fee.' See CHARITABLE USES AND MORTMAIN. The concluding chapter of Magna Charta sets forth that its establishment was bought from the Crown, like most

London, Port of

common seal having power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act without licence in mortmain. (2) The several persons who were respectively the chairman, vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority immediately

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Deed

Hen. 8, c. 16, or under the Land Tax Acts, gifts of land to charities under the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), s. 4 (9), and disentailing assurances according

Censumethidus

Censumethidus, a dead rent, like that which is called mortmain, Blount.

Assurances

2 Bl. Com. 294. The term, which is usually confined to transfers of land, is defined in the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, which regulates assurances of land to charitable uses, as including 'a gift, conveyance,

Alien

right to own land which has been conferred on companies registered under the Companies Act, 1929, notwithstanding the Mortmain Acts, has not been extended to alien companies established outside Great Britain and carrying on business in England

Admortisation or amortisation

Admortisation or amortisation [fr. Amortissement, Fr.], (1) the alienation of lands or tenements into mortmain; (2) the redemption of debt by a sinking fund.

Ad quod damnum

may do to grant a fair, market, etc. It is also used to inquire of lands given in mortmain to any house of religion, etc., Termes de la Ley. See 27 Edw. 1, st. 2.

use

in medieval England, where they were often secretly employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response, the Statute of Uses was enacted in 1535.

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