CHATTEL
chattel, personal chattel, movable
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
chattel (plural chattels)
Tangible, movable property.
A slave.
Anagrams
• latchet
Source: Wiktionary
Chat"tel, n. Etym: [OF. chatel; another form of catel. See Cattle.]
(Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition