DEO 
All, charming fair, faid I, 
g-low Song can you my blifs and your’s dtny ? Dryden. 
To abnegate ; to difown.—It fludl be therefore a wit- 
nefs unto you, left you deny your God. JoJh. xxiv. 27.—• 
To renounce ; to difregard ; to treat as foreign or not 
belonging to one.—The beft fign and fruit of denying 
ourfelves, is mercy to others. Spratt. 
To DEOBSTRU'CT, v. a. [deobjlruo , Lat.] To clear 
from impediments; to free from fuch things as hinder a 
paflage.—Such as carry oft' the faeces and mucus, deob- 
JlruEl the mouth of the ladteals, fo as the ch.vle may have 
a free paflage into the blood. Arbuthnot. 
DEOB'STRUENT,/. [ deobjlruens , Lat.] A medicine 
that has the power to refolve vifeidities, or to open by 
any means the animal paftages.—All fopes are attenuat¬ 
ing and deobftrnent, refolving vifeid fubftances. Arbuthnot. 
DE'ODAND, f [Do dandum, Lat.] Inlaw, means 
whatever perfonal chattel is the immediate occafion of 
tite death of any reafonable creature: which is forfeited 
to the king, to be applied to pious ufes, and diftributed 
in aims by his high almoner, though formerly deftined 
to a more fuperftitious purpofe. Flcta, lib. i. c. 25. It 
feems to have been originally defigned as an expiation for 
the fouls of fuch as were fnatched away by fudden death ; 
and for that purpofe ought properly to have been given 
to the church, in the fame manner as the apparel of a 
granger who was found dead, was formerly applied to 
purchafe maffes for the good of his foul. And this may 
account for that rule of law, that no deodand is due, where 
an infant under the age of diferetidft is killed by a fall 
from a cart or horfe, or the like, not being in motion ; 
whereas, if an adult perfon falls from thence, and is 
killed, the thing is certainly forfeited. 3 //:/?. 57. Such 
infant being prefumed incapable of a&ual fin, and there¬ 
fore not needing a deodand to purchafe propitiatory 
mafles. 1 Comm. 300, 
Thus (lands tiie law, if a perfon be killed by a fall from 
a thing Handing (till. But if a horfe, or ox, or other ani¬ 
mal, of his own motion, kill as well an infant, as an adult; 
or if a cart run over him, they (hall in either cafe be for¬ 
feited as deodands ; which is grounded upon this addi¬ 
tional reafon, that fuch misfortunes are in part owing to 
the negligence of the owner; and therefore he is proper¬ 
ly punifbed by fuch forfeiture, BraEl. 1 . 3. c. 5. Where 
a thing not in motion is the occafion of a man’s death, 
that part only which is the immediate caule is forfeited; 
as if a man be climbing up the wheel of a cart, and is 
killed by falling from it, the wheel alone is a deodand. 
1 Hawk. P. C. 422. But wherever the thing is in motion, 
not only that part which immediately gives the wound, 
.{as the wheel which runs over his body,) but all things 
which move with it, and help to make the wound more 
dangerous, (as the cart and loading, which increafe the 
preflure of the wheel,) are forfeited. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 26. 
It matters not whether the owner of the thing moving 
to the death of a perfon were concerned in the killing or 
not: for if a man kills another with my (word, the ('word 
is forfeited ; and therefore, in all indictments for homi¬ 
cide, the inftrument of death, and the value, are prelent- 
cd and'found by» the grand jury ; (as that the ftroke was 
given by a certain penknife, value lixpence,) that the 
king or his grantee may claim the deodand. For it is 
no deodand, unlefs it be prefented as fuch by a jury of 
twelve men. zlnjl. 57. $ Rep. no. No deodands are due 
for accidents happening upon the high fea, that being 
out of the jurisdiction of the common law : but if a man 
fails from a boat or (hip in irelli water and is drowned, it 
hath been faid that the velfel and cargo are in ftrictnefs 
of law a deodand. 3 Injl, 58. 1 Hawk, P. C. 423. 
Juries have of late perhaps too frequently taken upon 
th.emfelves to mitigate thefe forfeitures, by finding only 
Sb.rue trifling thing, or part of an entire thing, to have 
been the occafion of the death. But in fuch cafes, al- 
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though the finding by the jury be hardly warrantable by 
law, the court of king’s-benck hath generally refufed to 
interfere on behalf of the lord of the franchile, to aflift fo 
unequitable a claim. Fojl. on Homic. 2 66. Deodands, as 
well as other forfeitures in general, wrecks, treafure-trove, 
&c.may be granted by the king to particular fubjedts, as 
a royal franchife : and indeed they are for the mod part 
granted out to the lords of manors or other liberties ; to 
the perverfion of their original defign. 1 Comm. 299. 
If a man, riding over a river, is thrown off his horfe 
by tiie violence of the water, and drowned, his horfe is 
not deodand ; for his death was caufed per curfum aqud. 
2 Co. 483. If a perfon wounded by any accident, as of a 
cart, horfe, See. die within a year and a day after, what¬ 
ever occafioned it, is deodand : fo that if a horfe (Irikes « 
a man, and afterwards the owner fells the horfe, and then 
the party that was ftricken dies of the ftroke, the horfe, 
notvvjthftanding the fale, (hall be forfeited as deodand. 
Plowd. 260. 5 Rep. 'no. 
Things fixed to the freehold, as a bell hanging in a 
fteeple, a wheel of a mill, See. unlefs fevered from the 
freehold, cannot be deodands. ilnjl. 281. And there is 
no forfeiture of a deodand, till the matter is found of re¬ 
cord, by the jury that finds the death; who ought a Kb 
to find and appraife the deodand. 5 Rep. no. After the 
coroner’s inquifition, the (heriffis anfwerable for the va¬ 
lue, where the deodand belongs to the king'j and lie may 
levy the fame on the town, Sec. Wherefore the inqyeft 
ought to find the value of it. 1 Hawk. P. C. The goods 
and chattels of felo de fe , &c. were likewife anciently 
held to be deodands, and are now forfeitable to the 
crown. 1 Lid. 443. 
DEOGU'R, a town of Hindooftati, in the country of 
Berar, formerly a capital city, and refidenee of a raja: 
fifty-five miles north-north-weft of Nagpour, and feventy- 
five nonh-eaft of Ellichpour. Lat. 21. 54. N. Ion. 79. 
i2. E. Greenwich. 
DEOGU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Agra ; famous for its very ancient pagodas, and its vaft 
refort of pilgrims : twenty miles fouth of Gohud. 
DE'OLARY, a town of Afia, in the country of Al- 
mora : ten miles weft of Rampour. 
DE'OLS, or Bourg-Dieu. See Bourg-Dieu. 
DE ONERANDO pro Rata Portionis, f. in lavv, a writ 
where a perfon is diltrained 'for rent, that ought to be 
paid by others proportionably with him. If a man hold 
twenty acres of land by fealty, and twenty (hillings rent; 
and he aliens one acre to one perfon, and another acre to an¬ 
other, the lord (hall not diftfain one alienee for the whole 
rent, but for the rate and value of the land he hath pur- 
chafed, See. And if he be diftrained for more, he (hail 
have this writ. New Nat. Br. 586. 
To DEON'ERATE, v. a. [from thb Lat. de, from ; and 
onus, a burden.] To unload, to take off a burden. Not 
much uftd. 
Dfc-ON'GEN, a town of Pcrfia, in the province of Se- 
geftan : thirty-three miles foutii-weft of Kin. 
DEONNEL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Myfore 
country : nineteen miles north-north-eaft of Bangalore. 
To DEOP'PILATE,- v. a. [de and oppilo, Lat.] To de-. 
obftrudf ; to clear a paflage ; to free from obfh uctions. 
DE 0 PP 1 LA'TIGN,_/] The adt of clearing obftruc- 
tions; the removal of whatever obftruCts the vital paf- 
fages.—Though the g roller parts be excluded again, yet 
are the difi’oluble parts extracted, whereby it becomes 
effedhial in deoppilations. Brown. 
DEOP'PILATIVE, adj. Deobftruent.—A phyfictan 
prescribed him a deoppilative and purgative apozem. 
Harvey. . 
DEGSCULA'TION,yi [deojculatio, Lat.] The a6l of 
Lifting.—We.have an enumeration of the (everal aids of 
worth ip required to be performed to images, viz. pro. 
ceflions, genuflection.', thurifications, and deojdilations , 
Still ins; fleet. 
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