| Such is the parallel between the mortmain of the two corporations. |
| Royal licences to acquire property in mortmain allowed for a period of expansion into adjacent properties in the early 14th century. |
| The rest was in the hands of the Church and nobility, protected against sale by entail or mortmain, or owned by urban corporations, or bourgeois landowners. |
| He extended his hand, but mortmain had thrust his own into his trousers' pockets. |
| As some compensation, the mortmain Act was suspended for twenty years. |
| It may be thought that, at least for corporations, mortmain statutes were an exception. |
