WOTD – 15 June 2009 English Wikipedia has an article on: mortmain Wikipedia From Anglo-Norman mortmayn, morte meyn, from Old French mortes meins, after...
on: habous Wikipedia habous (uncountable) (Islam, law) An equivalent of mortmain in Islamic law Synonym: waqf soubah French Wikipedia has an article on:...
messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae." copyholder...
(uncountable) (law) In feudal law, the reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s...
amortisation (British) From Middle English amortisen (“to kill, alienate in mortmain”), from Anglo-Norman amorteser, alteration of Old French amortir, from...
Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction: The statute of mortmain […] was at several times relaxed by the legislature. 1953, “Section 2....
amortized) (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain. (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually...
(antonym(s) of “taking, holding, keeping something as one's own”): absence mortmain adverse possession catch in possession debtor in possession fee simple...
spelling has been modernized. (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain. 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland...
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