chattel

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: chat=tel

CIDE DICTIONARY

chattel, n. [OF. chatel; another form of catel. See Cattle.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
" 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."  [1913 Webster]

Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chattel, n. (usu. in pl.) a moveable possession; any possession or piece of property other than real estate or a freehold.

Idiom

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

THESAURUS

chattel

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