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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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
chattel
n : any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals
or a car etc) [syn: {personal chattel}]
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