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Mortmain, statute of
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Mortmain, statute of, 1279. Mortmain refers to property held by a ‘dead hand’ and therefore inalienable. Kings and barons objected to persons granting their land to a religious institution and receiving it back again, having shed, in the process, their military and other feudal obligations. The provisions of
Westminster (1259) declared against alienation of land without the lord's permission. Edward I's statute of 1279 forbade such transfers on pain of forfeiture, to the chagrin of the clergy.
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"Trying to make contact": "Mortmain" as pre-text for Robert Penn Warren's Portrait of a Father.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...opening sequence of Warren's poem "Mortmain," which he added as a kind of appendix...The title of the first section of "Mortmain" stresses contact--specifically and...reach back. The five-sectioned poem "Mortmain" was written long before Portrait of...
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Fatuous fiction; Overload of cliches kills tale of annoying writer and his family
Newspaper article from: Pacific Sun; 7/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Resistance. In I Capture the Castle, Mortmain, the blocked writer, does nothing but...happen in this film that do not involve Mortmain directly, he's such a pain in the...didn't know how to write it down. Mortmain (Bill Nighy), who published a a highly...
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'Castle' handles romance with dash, style
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/18/2003; ; 700+ words
; I Capture the Castle (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)1/2 Cassandra Mortmain Romola Garai Rose Mortmain Rose Byrne Simon Cotton Henry Thomas Neil Cotton Marc Blucas James Mortmain Bill Nighy Topaz Mortmain Tara Fitzgerald Mrs. Cotton Sinead Cusack...
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Conflicts of the heart bittersweet in 'Castle'.(ARTS)(MOVIES)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/19/2003; 700+ words
; ...protagonist: 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, who describes how good fortune simultaneously...filmmakers settle on 1936, where we find the Mortmain sisters and their blessedly easygoing...the girls' than the father's. Mr. Mortmain has been luckier than he deserves with...
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Who's the philosopher in the black? `By supporting the ref you get total detachment and involvement. You care about the game but not the winner'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/2/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...you." "Try us," we said. "Barry Mortmain," he said. There was a silence. Then...was the referee. His name was Barry Mortmain. I thought he was the only civilised...that the referee was going to be Barry Mortmain, so I thought I'd go along and support...
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Examining the Kiwi identity
Newspaper article from: The Press; 2/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...characters in Corbalis's new novel, Mortmain, may have been sparked by distant memories...his family ran the farm. As a book, Mortmain defies exact analysis. More than a social...t care much for her first draft of Mortmain. So much so that she asked for it to...
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The dead hand from beyond the grave
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; MORTMAIN by Judy Corbalis Chatto, ,16.99...Money lay at the heart of the Statute of Mortmain. Edward I passed the twin enactments...slump of the Thirties. The Statute of Mortmain provides a metaphor for the white settlers...
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Princess in the tower Cinema
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Cassandra's mother is dead, and her father Mortmain (Bill Nighy) is a writer who has been...wealthy, languid circle introduces the Mortmain family to a series of temptations and...writer's muse, snarls jealously of Mortmain's new patroness: "I knew it - she...
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'I Capture the Castle' Is All Talk
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/18/2003; ; 589 words
; ...English castle. Cassandra's father, Mortmain (Bill Nighy), a writer, hasn't...decades thanks to a traumatic past. Mortmain is married to the distinctly odd Topaz...this inevitable course of events? Will Mortmain start writing? And what of Stephen...
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Queen of the castle; She's at it again. Rob Driscoll finds out why serial disrober Tara Fitzgerald got naked in Wales for her latest part.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 4/30/2003; 700+ words
; ...outside world, with their oddball father Mortmain (Bill Nighy) and their beautiful...former artists' model and second wife to Mortmain, whose first wife died. When their...Tara . ``She lives to inspire, and Mortmain's increasingly prolonged case of writer...
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Mortmain, statute of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Mortmain, statute of, 1279. Mortmain refers to property held by a ‘dead hand’...educational establishments, and exceptions to the prohibition of mortmain were made in favour of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, and trusts...
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mortmain
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
mortmain [Fr.,=dead hand], ownership of...property. Attempts to limit ecclesiastic mortmain began as early as Carolingian times...holdings. In the United States ecclesiastic mortmain was never a serious problem, and remaining...
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Mortmain Acts
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
MORTMAIN ACTS Statutes designed to prevent lands...by religious corporations. The first mortmain act in England was enacted during the...gift complied with certain requirements. Mortmain acts have been abolished by statute...
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Mortmain
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Mortmain. The condition of land which could not be alienated because it was held by an ecclesiastical or other corporation. Statutes of Mortmain designed to limit the Church's power to acquire property were repeatedly...
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Property and Ownership
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...amortization, amortizement the transfer or sale of property in mortmain. burgage British, Obsolete, a form of land tenure under...property as security; the borrower in a mortgage transaction. mortmain transfer or ownership of real property in perpetuity, as transfer...
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