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deodand

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deodand [ˈdiːəʊˌdænd]
n
(Law) English law (formerly) a thing that had caused a person's death and was forfeited to the crown for a charitable purpose: abolished 1862
[from Anglo-French deodande, from Medieval Latin deōdandum, from Latin Deō dandum (something) to be given to God, from deus god + dare to give]
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4) He explains that the legal fiction surrounding civil forfeiture originated with the law of the deodand, which held that an inanimate object that caused a death was tainted and therefore must be forfeited to the king (pp.
A License to Steal: The Forfeiture of Property by Hakala, Leslie A. / Yale Law Journal
Alschuler, Introduction Comment, Ancient Law and the Punishment of Corporations: Of Frankpledge and Deodand, 71 B.
In defense of corporate criminal liability by Friedman, Lawrence / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
 
 
 
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