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Mortmain

noun

Real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation). Synonym: dead hand.

The oppressive influence of past events or decisions. Synonyms: dead hand, dead hand of the past.

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... between the Court and the leaders of parties, became in many cases an accession rather to the popular than to the royal scale; and some part of that influence, which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, and circulated among the people. This method therefore of governing by men of great natural interest or great acquired consideration, ...

— Thoughts on the Present Discontents - and Speeches • Edmund Burke

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... "deadhead," who really has nothing to do with the case. He has been spoken of as an incubus. Some people regard the free entry of the caput mortuum with a hostility like that shown by our ancestors (and to some extent ourselves) to the mortmain of the Church. ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

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... very much interested in America, and asked many questions about our politics. Two things, he said, in the future of America, seemed to him ominous of evil: the condition of our civil service, and the amount of our Western lands going into mortmain through the gifts ...

— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman

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Words linked to "Mortmain" : dead hand of the past, influence, corp, realty, dead hand, real estate, corporation, real property, immovable