Catalla Otiosa
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Dead goods or chattels, as distinguished from animals. Idle cattle, that is, such as were not used for working, as distinguished from beasts of the plow; called also animalia otiosa, Bract. fols, 217, 2176; 8 Bl. Comm. 9. Catalla reputantur inter minima in lege. Chattels are considered in law among the least things.
Jenk. Cent. 52.