chattels

  • 1chattels — chat‧tels [ˈtʆætlz] noun [plural] LAW the things that someone owns, not including land or buildings: • the goods and chattels that made up the Duke s personal estate …

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  • 2chattels — index assets, commodities, effects, estate (property), goods, paraphernalia (personal belongings), personalty …

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  • 3chattels — All property of whatever kind, excluding freehold land and anything permanently affixed to freehold land. Interests in land (e. g. leaseholds) are chattels real. Chattels personal are all movable and tangible articles of property. Chattels… …

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  • 4chattels — /ˈtʃætlz/ (say chatlz) plural noun 1. movable articles of property. 2. Law a. chattels personal, articles of property both movable and intangible, including debts, patents, copyrights, etc. b. chattels real, a leasehold interest in land. 3.… …

  • 5chattels personal — ˌchattels ˈpersonal noun [plural] LAW the things that a person owns that can be moved …

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  • 6chattels real — ˌchattels ˈreal noun [plural] LAW 1. PROPERTY property that someone owns leasehold 2. things other than property that someone owns …

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  • 7chattels personal — index movable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 8chattels real — index demesne, estate (property), real estate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 9Chattels real — Real Re al (r[=e] al), a. [LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a thing: cf. F. r[ e]el. Cf. {Rebus}.] 1. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life. [1913 Webster] Whereat I waked, and found Before mine eyes… …

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  • 10chattels personal — Things which have no concern with land, such as mere movables and rights connected with them, the term being used in distinction to chattels real. 42 Am J1st Prop § 24 …

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