English to Icelandic Meaning of mortmain - mortmain

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Definitions of mortmain in English
Noun(1) real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation(2) the oppressive influence of past events or decisions
Examples of mortmain in English
(1) Royal licences to acquire property in mortmain allowed for a period of expansion into adjacent properties in the early 14th century.(2) 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 .(3) All Catholic governments tightened up legislation against mortmain .(4) 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.(5) New laws on mortmain limited the size of donations that might be bequeathed to religious foundations.
(1) mortar board ::
steypuhræra borð
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1. dead hand ::
dauður hönd
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