chattel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chattel	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for chattel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chattel n personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) Synonym(s): chattel, personal chattel, movable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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.