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London, Port of

land for the purposes of this Act without licence in mortmain. (2) The several persons who were respectively the chairman, vice-chairman

Deed

Tax Acts, gifts of land to charities under the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c.

Censumethidus

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

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Assurances

usually confined to transfers of land, is defined in the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, which regulates assurances of land

Alien

on companies registered under the Companies Act, 1929, notwithstanding the Mortmain Acts, has not been extended to alien companies established outside

Admortisation or amortisation

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

Ad quod damnum

It is also used to inquire of lands given in mortmain to any house of religion, etc., Termes de la Ley.

Mortmain

Possession of lands or tenements in or conveyance to dead hands or hands that cannot alienate

use

employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response,

dead hand

dead hand : mortmain

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