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.
&fist; 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.
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