Chattel

Things personal include not only things movable, but something more: the whole of which is comprehended under the general name of "chattels," which Coke says is a French word signifying goods — from the technical Latin caialla, which meant, primarily, beasts of husbandry, and, 1 Minturn v. Larue, 23 How. 436 (1B59), Nelson, J.; 76 Va. 9fU; 11 id.

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2 [State V. Carron. 18 Iowa, 375-76 (1865), cases; State V. Prizer, 49 id. 532 (1878); 5 id. 39 1; 59 id. 686; 70 id. 464; 28 Minn. 52. 3 Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. 608-9 (1850). * State V. Brihkhaus, 34 Minn. 235 (18S5), Mitchell, J. s Smith V. Commonwealth, 64 Pa. 211-14 (1867), cases; secondarily, all movables in general. In Normandy, a chattel stood opposed to a fief or feud.i See further Cattle. ' Any species of property not real estate or freehold.2^L CJj IiMR^ersonal. Chattels personal are, strictlj Tthings movable: vchich may be annexed to or attenjj^dln the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another.' Such are animals, household stuff, money, jewels, grain, garments, and everything else that can be put in motion and transferred from place to place; ' also, choses in action; and slaves were.

Chattel real

Chattels real, says Coke, are such as concern, or savor of, the realty; as, terms for years of land, estates by a statute-merchant, statute-staple, or the like. These are called real chattels, as being interests issuing out of, or annexed to, real estate: of which they have one quality, viz., immobility, which denominates them " real; " but want the other, viz., a suflflcient, legal, indeterminate duration; and this want it is that constitutes them " chattels." The utmost period for which they can last is fixed and determinate, either for a space of time certain, or till a particular sum of money be raised out of a particular income; so that they are not equal, in law, to the lowest estate of freehold,— a lease for another's life.* Se«FixTORE; Goons; Mortgage; Property; Sale.