mortmain

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الإنجليزية - التركية
(Ticaret) transfer edilemeyen
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church

Though in truth it was the law of mortmain which originally sent the founders of chantries to seek the king's licence.

A strong and inalienable possession

; and some part of that influence , 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,.

{n} an entailed or unalienable estate
the possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as the Church
the oppressive influence of past events of decisions
Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate
{i} frozen assets; non-transferrable ownership
real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation)
mortmain

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    () From Anglo-Norman mortmayn, morte meyn, from Old French mortes meins, after Late Latin phrase mortua manus. See Latin mors ("dead") + manus ("hand").
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