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

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