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"mortmain", a word coined to represent the condition where land has come into the possession of a dead hand, or in Latin mortua manus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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In his Specimen, Leibniz terms his second postulated active force “vis mortua” or “dead force,” although it also appears in connection with the titles,
Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics Mcdonough, Jeff 2007
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Unde per vicos et plateas maxima pars ipsorum fame mortua iacebat, nec erat etiam qui sepeliret.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Puellae extra urbem in prato concurrentes, &c. maesta et melancholica domum rediit per dies aliquot vexata, dum mortua est.
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Note 18: Solomon Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century (New York, 1966), 1: 268 — 71: "[Judeos] quandam puellam, que mortua in quodam fossato reperta extitit, crucis patibulo affixisse …."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Tandem oratis et Deo me recommendans, et cruce signans, in nomine Iesu intraui, et vidi tot corpora mortua ibi, quòd nullus crederet nisi videret
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Nam cùm irem per vnam vallem quæ sita est iuxta fluuium deliciarum, multa corpora mortua vidi, et in illa valle audiui sonos musicos dulces et diuersos, et maximè de cytharis, vndè multum timui.
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Attamen in simili causa, si vir non vult cremari cum vxore mortua, non minuit ei honorem.
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Est autem consuetudo in terra illa, quòd corpora mortua non traduntur sepulturæ, sed in campis dimittuntur, et ex calore Solis citò resoluuntur, et sic consumantur: Corpora autem trium fratrum praedictorum per 14. dies illic in fuerore Solis iacuerunt, et ita recentia et redolentia inuenta fuerunt sicut illa die quandò martirizati erant: quod videntes Christiani qui in illa terra habitabant, praedicta corpora ceperunt, et honorificè sepelierunt.
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Attamen in simili causa, si vir non vult cremari cum vxore mortua, non minuit ei honorem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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