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Definition of Chattel

Chattel
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.

Meaning of Chattel from wikipedia

- Look up chattel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chattel may refer to: Chattel, an alternative name for tangible personal property A chattel house,...
- Chattel house is a Barbadian term for a small moveable wooden house that working class people would occupy. The term goes back to the plantation days...
- except as a punishment for a crime. In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner. In economics, the...
- Chattel mortgage, sometimes abbreviated CM, is the legal term for a type of loan contract used in some states with legal systems derived from English...
- is movable. In common law systems, personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In civil law systems, personal property is often called...
- The Chattel is a lost 1916 silent film drama directed by Frederick A. Thomson and starring stage actor E. H. Sothern. It was produced and distributed...
- Tresp**** to chattels, also called tresp**** to personalty or tresp**** to personal property, is a tort whereby the infringing party has intentionally (or...
- The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States...
- opposite, in which the person in the body does not own their body, is chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was defined as the absolute legal ownership of a person...
- better right to possession of the chattel than the defendant, and second, that the defendant refused to return the chattel once demanded by the claimant....