English Dictionary

mortmain

/ˈmɔːt.meɪn/

noun

(law) The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church. / (literary) A strong and inalienable possession.

The law prohibits the transfer of property into mortmain.

意味（1）

(law) The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.

[W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]

意味（2）

(literary) A strong and inalienable possession.

[…]; and some part of that influence [of the government], 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, […]