deodands

In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes.

Archive 2009-07-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes.

Songs of the Dying Earth, edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois Adam Whitehead 2009

'Then again as lord of many manors throughout the Palatinate I should have had all the old feudal dues coming in to my treasury -- waifs and strays, treasure trove, deodands ----'

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

It was said such abandoned effects came to the king, as the universal heir; upon which we are told, and I suppose it was in part true, that the king granted all such, as deodands, to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London, to be applied to the use of the poor, of whom there were very many.

A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935

HOW NIGEL WAS TRIED BY THE ABBOT OF WAVERLEY The law of the Middle Ages, shrouded as it was in old Norman-French dialect, and abounding in uncouth and incomprehensible terms, in deodands and heriots, in infang and outfang, was a fearsome weapon in the hands of those who knew how to use it.

Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

The law of the Middle Ages, shrouded as it was in old Norman-French dialect, and abounding in uncouth and incomprehensible terms, in deodands and heriots, in infang and outfang, was a fearsome weapon in the hands of those who knew how to use it.

Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

He says that deodands are not in contention, and that Cage and Lord Fairfax must now make the case to the Board of Trade to which this case statement will be sent.

Letter from Robert Carter to William Cage, Esqr., July 28, 1725 1725

It was said such abandoned effects came to the king, as the universal heir; upon which we are told, and I suppose it was in part true, that the king granted all such, as deodands, to the Lord Mayor and Court of

A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696

21 Through the purple gloom came molloqos the melancholy, borne upon an iron palanquin by knock at the Dorothy Lamour brahn bread deodands.

Saturday Night Songs of the Dying Earth Rhapsodic Cockney Remix 2009