Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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deadhand control
The use of executory interests that vest at some indefinite and remote time in the future to restrict alienability and to ensure that property remains in the hands of a particular family or organization. ( The rule against perpetuities restricts this activity, which is sometimes referred to either as the power of the dead hand (mortua manus) or as trying to retain property in mortua manu. See MORTMAIN.