Personal property

Property of a personal or movable nature, as opposed to property of a local or immovable character, (such as land or houses,) the latter being calied "real property." This term is also applied to the right or interest less than a freehold which a man has in realty.

Boyd v. Selma, 96 Ala. 144, 11 South. 393, 16 L. ItA. 729; Adams v. Hackett, 7 Cal. 203; Stief v. Hart, 1 N. Y. 24; Bellows v. Allen. 22 Vt 108; In re Bruckman's Estate, 195 Pa. 363, 45 Atl. 1078; Atlanta v. Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Co.., (C. C.) 101 Fed. 907.

That kind of property which usually consists of things temporary and movable, but includes nil subj'ects of property not of a freehold nafure, nor descendible to the heirs at law.

2 Kent, Comm. 340.

Personal property ls divisible into (1) corporeal personal property, which includes movable and tangible , things, such as animals, ships, furniture, merchandise, etc.; and (2) incorporeal personal property, which consists of such rights as personal annuities, stocks, shares, patents, and copyrights.

Sweet.

Private property

as protected from being taken for public uses, is such property as belongs absolutely to an individual, and of which he has the exclusive right of disposition; property of a specific, fixed and tangible nature, capable of being had in possession and transmitted to another, such as houses, lands, and chattels.

Homochitto River Co.m'rs v. Withers, 29 Miss. 21, 64 Am. Dec. 126; Scranton v. Wheeler, 179 U. S. 141 , 21 Sup. Ct. 48, 45 L. Ed. 126.