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Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

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buildsjets · 1789850616 · focus · HN ↗
Fundament: an archaic or formal term for the buttocks/anus.
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1. bryanrasmussen · 1789851773 · focus · HN ↗
  fundament is a base of anything, amongst which the buttocks was the fundament of the human anatomy apparently.
  1. mannykannot · 1789852984 · focus · HN ↗
    A point of view best appreciated from a semi-reclining position.
2. Joker_vD · 1789863459 · focus · HN ↗
  Similar etymology to "foundation": both derive ultimately from the same Latin word, "fundo", just from slightly different nominalizations (fundamentum/fundatio). Fittingly enough, that word still means "foundation" in e.g. French, German, and Polish.

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