deodand

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

An object forfeited to the state (and supposedly to God) because it had caused the death of a person.

Deodand in a sentence

Really, it’s hard not to wonder whether some current civil forfeiture practices represent much less than a revival of the archaic common-law deodand.

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