Mother Hubbard can have different, probably related, meanings:
- Old Mother Hubbard is a nursery rhyme.
- Mother Hubbard (dress) is a dress from the South Seas.
- A Mother Hubbard was another name for a camelback steam locomotive.
A Mother Hubbard Clause is a provision in a deed for the conveyance of real property that attempts to sweep within it other parcels not specifically described.
For example: O gives B a mortgage on a tract of land and "all other land I own in Delaware." O owns several other tracts of land in Delaware. Generally, Mother Hubbard clauses are not valid against subsequent purchasers of the undescribed land, and a bona fide purchaser of the other land in Delaware would not take subject to the mortgage.
Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or hubbard:
“She isn’t harassed. She’s busy, and it’s glamorous to be busy. Indeed, the image of the on- the-go working mother is very like the glamorous image of the busy top executive. The scarcity of the working mother’s time seems like the scarcity of the top executive’s time.... The analogy between the busy working mother and the busy top executive obscures the wage gap between them at work, and their different amounts of backstage support at home.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.”
—Kin Hubbard (F. [Frank] Mckinney Hubbard)