About The Word Chattel
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Chattel
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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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