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A term applied to denote the alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. These purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this has occasioned the general appellation of comortmain to be applied to such alienations. 2 BL Comm. 268; Co. … [Read more...] about MORTMAIN

A motion made by a party for the court to immediate award the party a favorable judgment and end the case. … [Read more...] about MOTION FOR JUDGMENT

Eng. law. These are a sort of ecclesiastical heriots, being a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister, in many parishes, on the death of the parishioner. … [Read more...] about MORTUARIES

See summary judgment. … [Read more...] about MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

In ecclesiastical law. A burial-place. A kind of ecclesiastical heriot being a customary gift of the second best living animal belonging to the deceased, claimed by and due to the minister in many parishes, on the death of his parishioners, whether buried in the church-yard or not 2 Bl. Comm. 425. Ayrton v. Abbott 14 Q. B. 19. It has been sometimes used in a civil as well as in … [Read more...] about MORTUARY