Verbiage - February 16, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 11:17AM
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Today's word of the day is Deodand:

Deodand

-noun, English Law

(before 1846) an animal or article that, having been the immediate cause of the death of a human being, was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses

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