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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHATTEL, n. chatl. [See Cattle.] Primarily, any article of movable goods. In modern usage, the word chattels comprehends all goods, movable or immovable, except such as have the nature of freehold. Chattels are real or personal. Chattels real, are such as concern or savor of the realty, as a term for years of land, ward-ships in chivalry, the next presentation to a church, estates by statute merchant, elegit and the like. Chattels personal, are things movable, as animals, furniture of a house, jewels, corn, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: chattel, personal chattel, movable]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English chatel property, from Anglo-French — more at cattle Date: 14th century 1. an item of tangible movable or immovable property except real estate and things (as buildings) connected with real property 2. slave, bondsman

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (usu. in pl.) a moveable possession; any possession or piece of property other than real estate or a freehold. Phrases and idioms: chattel mortgage US the conveyance of chattels by mortgage as security for a debt. goods and chattels personal possessions. Etymology: ME f. OF chatel: see CATTLE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chattels) Chattels are things that belong to you. (OLD-FASHIONED) They were slaves, to be bought and sold as chattels. N-VAR

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