Homicisium

Homicisium is the name of the fine that, according to medieval laws, the inhabitants of a municipality had to pay when the corpse of someone murdered within their municipal area was found and there was no way to find it. to the perpetrator of the crime.

The logical practice of keeping the discovery a secret and taking the victim to a neighboring town at night in order to avoid punishment gave rise to the expression casting the dead on one when it is intended to blame a third party for something they have not done.