mortmain

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɔːt.meɪn/    美 /ˈmɔɹt.meɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church. uncountable,usually
    — 1824, Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, [W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]
  2. A strong and inalienable possession. literary,uncountable,usually
    — […]; and some part of that influence [of the government], 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, […]

词形变化

mortmains plural

词汇关系

相关词
Statutes of Mortmain

词源

From Anglo-Norman mortmayn, morte meyn, from Old French mortes meins, after Late Latin phrase mortua manus. See Latin mortuus (“dead”) + manus (“hand”).
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