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chattel
The definition of chattel refers to all personal property (things you own other than real estate).
(noun)An example of chattal is your furniture and car.
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See chattel in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a movable item of personal property, as a piece of furniture, an automobile, or a head of livestockin full chattel personal
- any interest in real estate less than a freeholdin full chattel real
- a movable item of personal property, as a piece of furniture, an automobile, or a head of livestock
- a slave
Origin: ME chatel < OFr: see cattle
See chattel in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- Law An article of movable personal property.
- A slave.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English chatel, movable property
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Medieval Latin capitāle; see cattle
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