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The introduction is completely and utterly opaque to me. The referenced quotations are useful, but really interrupt the flow of the text. I have trouble even telling if this sentence is grammatically correct:

Mortmain (from Old French, morte meyn), means miterally dead-hand, or "such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable" (Wharton, "Law Lexicon", 10th ed., London, 1902, s. v.), is "the possession of land or tenements by any corporation" (Bouvier, "Law Dictionary", Boston, 1897, s. v.), or "where the use came ad manum mortuam, which was when it came to some corporation" (Lord Bacon, "Reading on the Statute of Uses"), alienation of lands or tenements to a corporation being termed alienation in mortmain (Stephen, "New Commentaries on the Laws of England", 15th ed., London, 1908, I, 296).

--Saforrest 01:00, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

It's an aweful E-B text dump. It might be best in the end to just wipe it out and start with a stub of some sort. 68.39.174.238 02:39, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup request

(moved from article cleanup tag 17:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC))

CE phrasing is outdated: "Modern law of England" turns out to be about 1900 CE., rife with possibly useless citations
  • I'm voting for a complete delete and restart. I'll do it (if there is general agreement) unless someone else wants to do it. Legal history is not my strongest suite, so I might have to a short article and leave it as a stub. Legis 10:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Per talk page above, I have replaced the previous text dump with a much shorter stub. I am not expert, but I think I have covered off the salient points about Mortmain. I have taken off the tags. If anyone can add or embellish appropriately, please do. Legis 19:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)