CHATTEL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'chatl
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| Matching Terms: | | chattel mortgage, Chattelism, chatter, chatter mark, Chatteration, chatterbot, chatterbox, chatterer, chattering
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) |
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| | Synonyms: | | personal chattel |
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| | See Also: | | personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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| Legal Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | An article of personal property. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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