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disentail
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6) It is necessary to distinguish between desamortizacion, or disentailment, as mere expropriation and as the breaking off of the restrictions to free exchange of property.
Disentailment was a massive transfer of property that mainly benefited the middle and upper echelons of the bourgeoisie at the expense of the clergy and a large sector of the poor that relied on social services and education provided by the Church.
Arrom finds that although bringing charitable institutions under direct state control was a centerpiece of the liberal Reform, the disentailment of corporate properties mandated by the 1856 Lerdo Law brought financial ruin on the Poor House.
 
 
 
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