Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 50-74] Reference
A sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference
"mortmain", a word coined to represent the condition where land has come into the possession of a dead hand, or in Latin mortua manus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The Laity suspect their greatness, witness those statutes of mortmain. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Alexandria, built over the grave a place of visitation and endowed it with mortmain writing over the door these couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Englanders at that, no doubt with the heavy Puritan mortmain upon them, narrow as a shoe string, circumscribed as a duck pond, walled in by ghastly respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Owing, moreover, to deaths by the plague, so much property had come into mortmain that the city had become impoverished, and one-third part of it rendered void of inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
The windows blocked all sound, and there was nothing audible in this room at all save the faint ticking of a wall clock with mortmain and company engraved on the face in gold. From Wordnik.com. [Clockwork Angel] Reference
A number of states also enacted “mortmain” statutes, which restricted gifts to charity in wills; such gifts could not be made too soon before death thirty days in some states. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
On real estate held by associations not subject to the mortmain law, the rate is 0.4 percent. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
The mortmain of theorists extinct in science clings as close as that of ecclesiastics defunct in law. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
Nor are these estates held altogether in the character or with the evils supposed inherent in mortmain. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference
But churchmen who hold or administer lands in mortmain, will never consent to such a salutary resolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Question] Reference
Parliament passed a statute of mortmain, forbidding religious bodies to receive bequests without the King's license. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
To enable them, in their corporate capacities, to receive grants of lands; and, so far, is against the laws of mortmain. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
I had often heard of entails, and mortmain, and lands held in fee or fief, I don't know which, and all that you know, Abimelech. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
This early statute of mortmain applies only to action by religious houses in the way of enabling lay owners to hold their lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
I wanted only 'mulk' or freehold land; and 'wakf' (land held in tail or mortmain) of various and awful kinds is much more common. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference
After the introduction of the feudal system it was always, and is still, necessary in England to have a licence in mortmain from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
We have had the opportunity of demonstrating to ourselves what a freedom from the banker-legal mortmain means, in our experience with the. From Wordnik.com. [My Life and Work] Reference
It was not until the close of the medieval period that the civil power began to restrict the acquisition of property by religious mortmain. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
This act constitutes each bishop a perpetual corporation, with the right of owning real estate in mortmain without restrictions as to extent or revenue. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Since the Statutes against mortmain and superstitious Uses, our great and numerous Foundations of Hospitals and Alms-houses are the Wonder of Foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation and Plantations of Great-Britain, Compared with Her Most Powerful Maritime Neighbours in Antient and Modern Times] Reference
This right was largely modified by the statutes of mortmain (q. v.) in England and has been strictly regulated and greatly limited by American legislation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
The English Parliament passes the first statute of mortmain; it forbids the alienation in mortmain of real property to religious houses or other corporations. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference
Here, in the end, Rome laid her mortmain upon Greek, Phoenician, and Sikeliot alike, turning the island into a granary and reducing its inhabitants to serfdom. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
But the Society reserves to itself, at the sale of it, to have the preference, and ordains that it shall not fall into mortmain and be sold or given to Papists. From Wordnik.com. [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference
As the object of the statutes of mortmain was solely political, they were held not to apply to the alienation of land in the West India colonies or in Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Do what Jeff might, the habits of the locality were stronger than his individuality; the dead ghosts of the past Campville held their property by invisible mortmain. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Briggs's Love Story] Reference
Courtecuisse is a type, were tenants in mortmain of a Tiberius in the valley of the Avonne, just as, in Paris, traders without money are the peasantry of the banking system. From Wordnik.com. [Sons of the Soil] Reference
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