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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… bequest to the said school was void under the statute of mortmain that the Company were only entitled under the … It deserves remark that I do not find any licence in mortmain enabling the corporation of the drapers to hold this … by the executors. The letters patent contain a license in mortmain to the master and brethren who are thereby …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… and licensed to hold goods, chattels, manors, and lands in mortmain. Sir J. Gresham, by deed of the 16th October 1656 …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… (1432). This charter contains a licence to hold land in mortmain to a limited amount; and it is remarkable that the … same purpose for which they were licensed to hold lands in mortmain could be held only on the same trusts, and in the … of 20 l. per annum, notwithstanding the then statutes of mortmain. Before that time the fraternity could only hold …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… poor and indigent men, and were empowered to hold lands in mortmain as therein mentioned: And whereas the said …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… for the last forty years, owing to the provisions of the Mortmain Act. Here is a mineral spring, which is said to have …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… places, and rents, freely or upon terms which are given in mortmain at present, or shall be given in future, or even are …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… to the abbot of Kirkstead (Lincolnshire) to appropriate in mortmain the church of Woodhall (Lincolnshire), without …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… were still finding ways of circumventing the Statute of Mortmain and acquire for their own use lands which had … shall not be revealed by him. [p. iii-319] [col. a] [Mortmain.] [Mortmain.] 32. < Religiouses. > Item, priont les communes, …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… upheld and put into proper and due execution. XX. XX. 92. [Mortmain] Item, prient les communes qe come il soit ordenez … du dit estatut: sur quoy vous plese ordener remede. 92. [Mortmain]. Also, the commons pray that whereas it was … should purchase land or tenement, nor appropriate them in mortmain, without the will and permission of the lords from …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… enfeoffments-to-use) to evade the terms of the Statute of Mortmain (or De Religiosis ) of1279 (Item 32). The root … disappear entirely. At the time of the Statute of Mortmain, enfeoffments-to-use and other such devices which … be that one of Edward I's aims in passing the Statute of Mortmain had been to make money by selling licences for its …