POETIC JUSTICE.
A PEDESTRIAN INJURED. CAR BECOMES HIS PROPERTY. LONDON, Dee. 9. When Herbert Allen, a motorist, was charged at Leicester with knocking down a man, his solicitor asked the complainant it lie had been compensated. The latter replied: “Yes, lie gave me the car.” Allen was fined 40s, and his license was suspended for six months. There was a very ancient law in Britain, under which “the tiling that moved to do the deed was deodand and forfeited.” That is. if a man injured another with a scythe or axe, the injured man was given the offending instrument and his assailant punished. If the law of deodand were now revived pedestrians would be given the motor-car which injured them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 December 1926, Page 7
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