Owing, moreover, to deaths by the plague, so much property had come into mortmain that the city had become impoverished, and one-third part of it rendered void of inhabitants.
The religious suzerainty of such princes was the complement of their civil and military power, and their ordinary income was augmented by some portion at least of the revenues which the lands in mortmain furnished annually.
Some people regard the free entry of the caput mortuum with a hostility like that shown by our ancestors (and to some extent ourselves) to the mortmain of the Church.
Then he took the offensive himself, by persuading his parliament to pass the Statute of Mortmain (de religiosis).
A distinct check in the hitherto steady growth of clerical endowments began from this time, though licences in mortmain were by no means impossible to obtain.
The Statute of Mortmain forbade any man to alienate land to the church without royal licence.
Priests were no longer allowed to evade the Mortmain Acts by working on death-bed terrors.
The laws of mortmain were relaxed, and steps were taken towards diminishing the rigidity of entails.
With this view, the laws of mortmain were revised, and various measures taken to interpose obstacles in the way of persons who desired to waste their property by bequeathing it for ecclesiastical purposes.
In Indiana, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, there is noMortmain act.
The several Statutes of Mortmain had their origin in this effort of the civil power to curb the influence of the spiritual power, and check a dangerous tendency to enrich corporations of a religious or eleemosynary character.
At the suppression of the guilds the shearmen and tailors held a mill and tenements in mortmainfor the support of their chauntry.
They gave forty marks for a fresh license for their guild with mortmain up to ten marks, and leave to elect four masters at the Nativity to rule the craft and to plead in courts for the whole body.
The charter of 1393 was probably connected with the extension of the statute of mortmain to towns.
Since the days of the Statute of Mortmain the spirit of the times was changed, and benefactors who desired to leave a good work behind them founded and endowed schools and colleges, and not abbeys as of old.
The same years that are notable for the passing of the statutes of Mortmain and Quia Emptores, and for the expulsion of the Jews, were those in which the English Parliament was gradually growing into its permanent shape.
And of a kind more odious and dangerous than that mortmain of the church which it baffled the English Parliament so many ages to abolish.
The mortmain of the church was a power in an ecclesiastical corporation to hold real estate, independent of the laws of distribution and descent: the mortmain of the bank is a power in a lay corporation to do the same thing.
Such is the parallel between the mortmain of the two corporations.
The only States that have statutes of mortmain are Mississippi and North Carolina.
The mortmain of the Church was soon to fall upon Urbino, as it had already fallen on Ferrara.
As early as the end of the fourteenth century, the rigorous laws of mortmain began to fall into disuse in the provinces; though if the name began to disappear, the condition itself continued to exist.
In fact, a mortmain person, to be free, not only required to be franchised by his own lord, but also by all the nobles on whom he was dependent, as well as by the sovereign.
The English law against mortmain was dictated by the jealousy of the feudal lords, who lost the services they would otherwise have been entitled to, when their land passed into the hands of a perpetual corporation.
Then came the act of 1736, commonly but improperly called the Mortmain Act.
The Mortmain Acts applied only to cases of alienation inter vivos.
The power to acquire and hold land was incident to a corporation at common law, but its restriction by the statutes of mortmain dates from a very early period.
The Mortmain and Benefit of Clergy Acts were respectively in limitation of bequests to the Church and of privileges of clerical criminals.
Sidenote 1: Mortmain and Benefit of Clergy] [Sidenote 2: Annates Act] The other Acts referred to above were passed before the Submission of the Clergy was completed.
To the mortmain of the Church reverts Urbino's lordship, and even now he meditates the terms of devolution.
Here, in the end, Rome laid her mortmain upon Greek, Phoenician, and Sikeliot alike, turning the island into a granary and reducing its inhabitants to serfdom.
The idea of what Mortmain experienced in his last conscious moments "got across" in no uncertain way.
If a lay proprietor desired to make the provision for the people about him, he could do it by getting the bishop's leave to found a chantry, and the king's licence to endow it notwithstanding the Mortmain Act.
To put a stop to this practice, and so make all landed proprietors do their part, the Statute of Mortmain was passed, 1279.
At the same time the Statute of Mortmain (a restriction on the acquisition of land by the Church, which was exempt from paying certain feudal dues) was imposed to prevent the King's revenue from being diminished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortmain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
