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jawfoot (medicine)


jawfoot
<zoology> See Maxilliped.

Source: Websters Dictionary


mortmain (iou)



mortmain noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman & Old French mortemain from medieval Latin mortua manus dead hand, from fem. of Latin mortuus dead + manus hand, prob. with allus. to impers. ownership.]
Law (now Hist.).
The condition of lands or tenements held inalienably by an ecclesiastical or Other corporation; lands or tenements so held. LME.
fig.: G. Greene Catholics are always said to be freed in the confessional from the mortmain of the past.
A licence of mortmain, conveying the monarch's permission to vest property in a corporation. M16-M17.
Comb.: mortmain act any of several acts imposing restrictions on the devising of property to charitable use, esp. that of 1736.