Word: mortmain
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...landowners complained bitterly of losing “the services which are due of such fees,” which after all were provided “for the defense of the realm.” And in 1279, King Edward I consented to the Statute of Mortmain, which forbade religious institutions from acquiring any land from a tenant without the lord’s permission...