mortmain

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von mortmain im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

(Ticaret) transfer edilemeyen

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von mortmain im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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)

Silbentrennung

mort·main

Etymologie

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