About The Word Chattel

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Chattel

Chattel Meaning & Definition
Chattel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chattel?

[n] personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chattel: personal chattel

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chattel: acquest | belongings | bondmaid | bondman | bondslave | bondsman | bondswoman | captive | chattel slave | chattels | churl | concubine | debt slave | effects | estate and effects | galley slave | goods | havings | helot | hereditament | holdings | homager | incorporeal hereditament | lares and penates | liege | liege man | liege subject | movables | odalisque | peon | possessions | properties | property | serf | servant | slave | subject | theow | things | thrall | vassal | villein

See Also | personal estate | personal property | personalty | private property

Chattel In Webster's Dictionary

\Chat"tel\, n. [OF. chatel; another form of catel. See {Cattle}.] (Law) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects. Note: Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc. {Chattel mortgage} (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.

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