Definitions for: Chattel


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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: personal chattel

See Also: personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property

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