'Chattel' definitions:
Definition of 'chattel'
(from WordNet)
noun
Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: chattel, personal chattel, movable]
Definition of 'Chattel'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chattel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquest,
- belongings,
- bondmaid,
- bondman,
- bondslave,
- bondsman,
- bondswoman,
- captive,
- chattel slave,
- chattels,
- churl,
- concubine,
- debt slave,
- effects,
- estate and effects,
- galley slave,
- goods,
- havings,
- helot,
- hereditament,
- holdings,
- homager,
- incorporeal hereditament,
- lares and penates,
- liege,
- liege man,
- liege subject,
- movables,
- odalisque,
- peon,
- possessions,
- properties,
- property,
- serf,
- servant,
- slave,
- subject,
- theow,
- things,
- thrall,
- vassal,
- villein