Desamortizacion
Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1910)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In Mexican law. The desamortizacion of property is to take it ont of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose it from the grasp, as it were, of ecolesiastical or civil corporatione. The term has no equivalent in English. Hall, Mex. Law, § 749.