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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.

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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc.)
  3. 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.
  4. Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold,or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive termthan goods or effects.
  5. n:100 n. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)