Note 208 — Chapter XXI · CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE POLITICAL STATE
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See Plato, Laws, IX., 873. Compare Holmes, Common Law. In mediæval and early modern Europe, offending objects were "deodand," that is, devoted to God. They were to be appropriated by the proper civil or ecclesiastical authority, and used for charity. In theory, this lasted in England up to 1846. See Tylor, Primitive Culture, Vol. I., pp. 286-287; and Pollock and Maitland, op. cit., II., pp. 471-472.