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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 880 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORTMAIN (0. Fr. mortemain; med. See also:Lat. mortua manus, dead See also:hand)  , the See also:state or See also:condition of lands or tenements when held by a See also:corporation in perpetual or inalienable See also:tenure . See also:Alienation in See also:mortmain having the effect of depriving the See also:lord of the incidents of See also:seignory, which arose through the See also:death or See also:felony of the See also:tenant .or failure of his heirs, many See also:English statutes were passed directed against such alienation . The earliest is that of See also:Henry III . 36 (Magna Carta); others being 7 See also:Edward 1.13 (De Viris Religiosis); 13 Edward I . 32; 15 See also:Richard II . 5; and 23 Henry VIII. so . .The See also:present See also:law is regulated by the Mortmain and Charitable Uses See also:Act 1888, as amended by the act of 1891 .

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