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Desamortizacion

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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.