Chattel Definition

chătl
chattels
noun
chattels
A movable item of personal property, as a piece of furniture, an automobile, or a head of livestock.
Webster's New World
Any interest in real estate less than a freehold.
Webster's New World
A slave.
Webster's New World

Any tangible property that is moveable or transferable. See also personal property and real property.

Webster's New World Law
adjective

Commonly used to describe the treatment of Russian serfs as property.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Chattel

Noun

Singular:
chattel
Plural:
chattels

Origin of Chattel

  • From Middle English chatel, from Old French chatel, from Medieval Latin capitāle (English capital), from Latin capitālis (“of the head”), from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare cattle (“cows”), which is from an Anglo-Norman variant. Compare also capital and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English chatel movable property from Old French from Medieval Latin capitāle cattle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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