英语词汇“mortmain”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mortmain

/ˈmɔːtmeɪn

noun [mass noun] Law

The status of lands or tenements held inalienably by an ecclesiastical or other corporation.The rest was in the hands of the Church and nobility, protected against sale by entail or mortmain, or owned by urban corporations, or bourgeois landowners....

Hospitals and poor houses found the charitable bequests on which they had always relied dwindling, and, as ecclesiastical institutions, they were cut off from further endowments by legislation of 1749 restricting mortmain.
All Catholic governments tightened up legislation against mortmain.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, Old French mortemain, from medieval Latin mortua manus 'dead hand' (probably alluding to impersonal ownership).

单词	mortmain
释义	mortmain /ˈmɔːtmeɪn / noun [mass noun] Law The status of lands or tenements held inalienably by an ecclesiastical or other corporation.The rest was in the hands of the Church and nobility, protected against sale by entail or mortmain, or owned by urban corporations, or bourgeois landowners.... Hospitals and poor houses found the charitable bequests on which they had always relied dwindling, and, as ecclesiastical institutions, they were cut off from further endowments by legislation of 1749 restricting mortmain. All Catholic governments tightened up legislation against mortmain. Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, Old French mortemain, from medieval Latin mortua manus 'dead hand' (probably alluding to impersonal ownership).
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