chattel

(chăt'l)

1. Law. An article of movable personal property.
2. A slave.

[Middle English chatel, movable property, from Old French, from Medieval Latin capitāle. See cattle.]

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noun

One's portable property: belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Informal stuff. Law movable (often used in plural). See owned/unowned.

1. Any article of property not consisting of or affixed to land; movable property.
2. Same as 1, above, plus any interest in land that is less than a freehold. When this nomenclature is used, the term chattel personal is employed to designate movables such as goods and money, and chattel real to designate less-than-freehold interests in real property, such as leasehold interests for a term of years.

An item of personal property that is movable; it may be animate or inani- mate.

Chattels are synonymous with goods or personalty.

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• Customs, Formalities, and Practices - chattel: item of personal property other than real property and land
• Economics and Economic Theory - chattel: movable item of personal property; slave

Dansk (Danish)
n. - løsøre, formuegenstand

Nederlands (Dutch)
(mv) roerend goed, persoonlijke bezitting(en)

Français (French)
n. - (Jur) bien, possession

Deutsch (German)
n. - bewegliches Eigentum, Sklave

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (νομ.) κινητό (πράγμα), κινητό περιουσιακό στοιχείο

Italiano (Italian)
beni mobili

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bem (m) móvel (Jur.), escravo (m)

Русский (Russian)
движимое имущество, раб

Español (Spanish)
n. - bien mueble

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sak, ägodel

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
动产, 奴隶

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 動產, 奴隸

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (법) 동산, 소지품, 가재

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 動産, 家財

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أمتعه, أثاث, ممتلكات منقوله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חפצים, מטלטלין‬

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