Mortmain (/ˈmɔːrtmeɪn/) is the perpetual, inalienable ownership of real estate by a corporation or legal institution; the term is usually used in the context...

The Statutes of Mortmain were two enactments, in 1279 (Statutum de Viris Religiosis, 7 Edw. 1) and 1290 (Quia Emptores, 18 Edw. 1), passed in the reign...

Mortmain is a five-part 1915 Vitagraph mystery drama film, directed bye Theodore Marston. Reviewer Lynde Denig said it was a mystery drama with a scientific...

decaying castle during the 1930s. The first-person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, who tells the story through her journal. It is a coming-of-age story in...

conception possible. Mortmain offers Tessa the chance to go with him in exchange for her friends' safety. However, Tessa tricks Mortmain by making him believe...

lead role of Cassandra Mortmain alongside Bill Nighy, Rose Byrne and Tara Fitzgerald. The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and her eccentric family...

1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. In it, she portrayed Rose Mortmain, the elder sister of Romola Garai's Cassandra. In 2003, Byrne starred in...

Nate has been in league with Axel Mortmain, the true "Magister", all along, and betrays Tessa by giving her to Mortmain, though she is able to fake her...

Mortmain: the Court of Chancery refused to find the writings blasphemous but voided the bequest, acknowledging that it broke the Statutes of Mortmain...

Mortmain Mountains after the Baudelaires reveal themselves to her. After striking a deal with her to bring her with them when they explore Mortmain Mountains...

royal prerogative and outlined restrictions on liberties. The Statutes of Mortmain (1279) addressed the issue of land grants to the Church. The first clause...

2003. In the novel, Violet and Klaus Baudelaire make their way up the Mortmain Mountains to rescue their sister Sunny from Count Olaf and his troupe....

begin to question her ability to lead. Now Tessa and her friends must find Mortmain – an evil industrialist bent on destroying all the Nephilim in the world...

degree. Waqf (Arabic: وَقْف; [ˈwɑqf]), also known as 'hubous' (حُبوس) or mortmain property, is a similar concept from Islamic law, which typically involves...

Neo-feudalism Nulle terre sans seigneur Protofeudalism Quia Emptores Statutes of Mortmain Suzerainty Vassal state Ziamet Fengjian (Chinese) Feudalism in Pakistan...

أَوْقَاف), also called a ḥabs (حَبْس, plural ḥubūs حُبوس or aḥbās أَحْباس), or mortmain property, is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law. It...

manufacture, manumission, manumit, manuport, manure, manus, manuscript, mortmain, Quadrumana, quadrumanous mand-, -mend- order, commit Latin mandāre, mandātus...

off against the series main antagonist, The Magister (also known as Axel Mortmain), who plans to completely obliterate the Shadowhunter race. Two months...

has died, a concept often referred to as control by the "dead hand" or "mortmain". The basic elements of the rule against perpetuities originated in England...

fees that a lord could claim upon a landholder's death: see Statute of Mortmain. (However a corporation can be dissolved by a government authority by putting...

1988) is a British actor, who is known for playing the part of Thomas Mortmain in the 2003 film I Capture the Castle and for voicing Harry Potter in Harry...

the series. He received later tuition at a V.F.D. headquarters in the Mortmain Mountains and was employed by a newspaper called The Daily Punctilio after...

originally been devised by the regular clergy for evading the statutes of Mortmain. This was abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act 1833, which provided...

reform movement of the late 1250s and early 1260s. With the Statutes of Mortmain, Edward imposed his authority over the Church; the statutes prohibited...

(I) An Act to empower His Majesty to grant Licenses to alien Lands in Mortmain. 32 Geo. 3. c. 32 (I) An Act to enable Aliens born out of the Allegiance...

of the Parliament of England. It was repealed by section 13(1) of the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42) (but see section 13(2)...

grotto. Having been separated from Quigley Quagmire by the waterfall of the Mortmain Mountains, the Baudelaire children arrive at the hull of the Queequeg,...

temporal power. These endowments sometimes concentrated great wealth in the mortmain ("dead hand") of the church, so called because it endured beyond any individual's...

grow rhubarb in the dry and barren ground, or never making it out of the Mortmain Mountains where their bones can be found in one of the mountain range's...

or Great Charter of Liberties in Ireland Ordinances of 1311 Statutes of Mortmain The document's Latin name is spelled either Magna Carta or Magna Charta...