chattel
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)Synonyms: personal chattelmovable
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Chattel \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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property. [1913 Webster]