WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

effects
    n 1: property of a personal character that is portable but not
         used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in
         the house"; "I watched over their effects until they
         returned" [syn: effects, personal effects]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "effects":
   acquest, belongings, catalog goods, chattels, clobber, commodities,
   consumer goods, consumer items, crap, estate and effects, gear,
   goods, goods for sale, havings, hereditament, holdings,
   incorporeal hereditament, inventory, job lot, junk, line,
   line of goods, mail-order goods, merchandise, paraphernalia,
   personal property, possessions, properties, property, shit,
   sideline, staples, stock, stock-in-trade, stuff, things, vendibles,
   wares



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

EFFECTS. This word used simpliciter is equivalent to property or, worldly
substance, and may carry the whole personal estate, when used in a will. 5
Madd. Ch. Rep. 72; Cowp. 299; 15 Ves. 507; 6 Madd. Ch. R. 119. But when it
is preceded and connected with words of a narrower import, and the bequest
is not residuary, it will be confined to species of property ejusdem generis
with those previously described. 13 Ves. 39; 15 Ves. 826; Roper on Leg. 210.