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Deodand - a thing that has caused the death of a person, and that is therefore to be forfeited to God (or to the earthly authorities, who donate the thing or its value to a religious cause). Deodands were abolished in English law in 1846, in order to protect the railway companies. I learned that wo...

I have a half-question half-observation about the way that dialogues in Elcari would work in practice. A feature of Elcari that fascinated me was the way that the assignment anaphora were binding on all participants in the conversation. https://www.zompist.com/elkaril.htm#Assignment Now, I realise t...