Mortmain
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
(Dead hand.) A term applied to conveyances to a corporation; particularly a religious corp^oration, when it was held, without possibility of alienation or change, by persons dead in law.
Statute of Mortmain: 7 Edw. I.; 9 Geo. II. c. 36.