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Definition of Deodands
1. deodand [n] - See also: deodand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deodands
Literary usage of Deodands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High by Edward Coke (1797)
"See in the next chapter of deodands, of another ... parliament concerning deodands,
of, ... that in aqua duki there may be deodands, but in the fea, ..."
2. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"PC 57, 58. tho this doth not vitiate the indictment as to the offense itself,
tho the price be omitted. deodands are of two natures: 1. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(1) deodands.—By this is meant whatever personal chattel is the immediate occasion
... Co., 10 M. & W. 58); but deodands were abolished by 9 & 10 Viet., c. ..."
4. A Treatise on Copyholds: Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and the by John Scriven (1834)
"deodands (which sometimes also belong to the lord of the manor by grant from the
crown) are denned to be omnia qua: movent ad mortem (f/), and have been ..."
5. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by Henry Stalman, John Scriven (1846)
"deodands (which sometimes also belong to the lord of the manor by grant from the
crown) are defined to be omnia ..."
6. The Law Relating to Railways and Railway Companies: With All the Cases by Sir William Hodges (1847)
"An Act to abolish deodands. [18th August, 1846.] Whereas the law respecting the
forfeiture of chattels which hiv < moved to or caused the death of man, ..."
7. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"216. the value of the instrument, though we have no deodands, and Art. 4.
though no township is charged with the value of it. But the omission of such value ..."
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