Any personal chattel whatever, animate or inanimate, which is the immediate cause of the death of a hu- man creature. It was forfeited to the king to be distributed in alms by his high almo- ner "for the appeasing," says Coke, "of God's wrath." The word comes from Deo dandum, a thing that must be offered to God. A Latin phrase which is attributed to Bracton has, by mistranslation, given rise to some erroneous statements in some of the authors as to what are deolands. Omnia que ad mortem movent, although it evidently means all things which tend to produce death, has been rendered move to death, thus giv- ing rise to the theory that things in motion only are to be forfeited. A difference, however, according to Blackstone, existed as to how much was to be sacri- ficed. Thus, if a inan should fall from a cartwheel, the cart being stationary, and be killed, the wheel only would be deodand while, if he was run over by the same wheel in motion, not only the wheel but the cart and the load became deodand. And this, even though it belonged to the dead man. Horses, oxen, carts, boats, mill-wheels, and cauldrons were the commonest deodands. The common name for it was the bana," the slayer. In the thirteenth cen- tury the common practice was that the thing itself was delivered to the men of the township where the death occurred, and they had to account to the king's officers. In very early records the justices in eyre named the charitable purpose, to which the money was to be applied; 2 Poll. & Maitl. 471. In 1840, a railway company in England was amerced £2,000, as a deodand. Deodands were not abolished till 1846; Statute 9 & 10 Vict. c. 62. See 1 Bla. Com. 301; 2 Steph. Com. 551. Originally deodands went to the Crown, to be applied to charitable uses; they were often granted to lords of manors. The value was fixed, generally very low, by the coroner's jury. The Law's Lumber Room 60. No deodand accrues in the case of a felo- nious killing; 1 Q. B. 818; 1 G. & D. 211, 481; 9 Dow. 1048.