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mortmain
UK /ˈmɔːt.meɪn/ US /ˈmɔɹt.meɪn/
noun 2
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4ADJ.
unalienable
VERB + MORTMAIN
sort
MORTMAIN + NOUN
domain
ADV.
originally
Definitions
noun
1
The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.
1824, Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, [W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]
Though in truth it was the law of mortmain […] which originally sent the founders of chantries to seek the king's licence […]
2
A strong and inalienable possession.
[…]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, […]
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1824, Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, [W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and
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Though in truth it was the law of mortmain […] which originally sent the founders of chantries to seek the king's licence […]
Wiktionary03
[…]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it ar
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