Chattel

An article of personal property; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. The name given to things which in law are deemed personal property. Chattels are divided into chattels real and chattels personal; chattels real being interests in land which devolve after the manner of personal estate, as leaseholds. As opposed to freeholds, they are regarded as movables, which are called "chattels personal." Mozley & Whitley. Chattels personal are movables only; chattels real are such as savor only of the realty.

19 Johns. 73.

The term "chattels" is a more comprehensive one than "goods," as it includes animate as well as inanimate property.

2 Chit. Bl. Comm. 383, note.

In a devise, however, they seem to be of the same import.

Shep. Touch. 447; 2 Fonbl. Eq. 335.