admortization

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin admortizatio. Compare amortization.

Noun edit

admortization (uncountable)

(law) In feudal law, the reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “admortization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)