"Deodand" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Any personal chattel which was the Immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature, and which was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. 1 Hale, P. C. 419; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 25; 1 Bl. Comm. 300 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 365
A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person,
and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown,
to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high
almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was
forfeited as a deodand.
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