Latin meaning In a dead hand. Property owned by religious societies was said to be held in mortua manu, or in mortmain, since religious men were civiliter mortui. 1B1. Comm. 479; Tayl. Gloss.
Latin meaning In a dead hand. Property owned by religious societies was said to be held in mortua manu, or in mortmain, since religious men were civiliter mortui. 1B1. Comm. 479; Tayl. Gloss.