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personal effects

 
Dictionary: personal effects

pl.n.
Privately owned items, such as keys, an identification card, or a wallet or watch, that are regularly worn or carried on one's person.


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

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A vague phrase used to describe tangible property having an intimate relation to the decedent, such as clothing and jewelry. 110 N.Y.S. 2d 584, 585.

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(DOD) All privately owned moveable, personal property of an individual. Also called PE. See also mortuary affairs; personal property.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business
  Synonym: effects


 
 

 

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