literally "dead hand", through Old French morte main (in modern French, mainmorte). During the Middle Ages in Western European countries such as England...

abolished all mainmorte on the royal estates and personal mainmorte on private estates. In 1771 he also abolished real-estate mainmorte on private estates...

chief town, became dioceses under the Lower Empire; their status as "mainmorte", having escaped the division of patrimonial domains, explains why they...

Committee reported back on 5 March 1790. The Committee reintroduced the mainmorte (explicitly outlawed by the original decrees) and set a rate of redemption...

accomplishments (such as selling state land to peasants and confiscating mainmorte estates), while aiming to persuade the PNL to back electoral reform. During...

modern civil legislation (of Continental countries) concerning biens de mainmorte, or property held by inalienable tenure, i.e. the property of religious...

Réflexions sur le remboursement des rentes foncières dues aux gens de mainmorte, 1789. OCLC 43290543 (in French) Sacri numeri : illustrissimo ac reverendissimo...

in lieu of a land reform (the promised tax cuts, plus the freeing of mainmorte property). These policies angered the opposition Conservative-Democrats...

ecclesiastical estates belonging to the 172 monasteries, and to confiscate "mainmorte" property (belonging to congregations and therefore exempt from the inheritance...

psychoanalysis and a member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Mainmorte (1999) Petites morts : Dans un hôpital psychiatrique de campagne (1999)...

the newspaper tax and was a strong advocate of free trade. His work, La mainmorte et la charité (1854–57), directed against the Conservatives, produced...