The said Vicar shall also receive and have all Mortuaries whatsoever, live and dead, of whatsoever things they may consist.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
But where Mortuaries have customarily been less, they shall remain the same.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Then they think it would be an added decency to the lives of the poor if there were more Mortuaries near their homes to take the dead bodies from the already overcrowded rooms-as though the problem they were there to consider was not the housing of the quick, but the housing of the dead.
"The Law and the Poor"
Edward Abbott Parry