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] (Law) Possession of
lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that
cannot alienate.

&fist; The term was originally applied to conveyance of land made
to ecclesiastical bodies; afterward to conveyance made to any
corporate body. Burrill.

Mort"mal (?), n. See
Mormal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Mort"pay` (?), n. [F. mort dead
+ E. pay.] Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the
service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by
soldiers. [Obs.] Bacon.

{ Mor"tress (?), Mor"trew (?), }
n. [See Mortar.] A dish of meats and
other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida.
Chaucer. Bacon.

Mor"tu*a*ry (?), n.; pl.
Mortuaries (#). [LL. mortuarium. See
Mortuary, a.] 1. A sort
of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to,
the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to
have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to
make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the
deceased had been guilty.

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