Furniture
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
This term includes that which fumlshes or with which anything ls furnished or supplied; whatever must be supplied to a house, a room or the like, to make it habitable, convenient or agreeable; goods, vessels, utensils, and other appendages necessary or convenient for housekeeping; whatever is added to the interior of a house or apartment, for use or convenience. Bell v. Golding, 27 Ind. 173. The term "furniture" embraces everything about the house that has been usually enjoyed therewith, including plate, linen, china, and pictures. Endicott v. Endicott, 4l N. J. Eq. 96, 3 Atl. 157. The word "fumifure" made use of in the disposition of the law, or in the conventions or acts of persons, comprehends only such furniture as is intended for use and ornament of apartments, but not libraries which happen to be there, nor plate. Civ. Code La. art. 477.
— Furniture of a ship. This term includes everything with which a ship requires to be furnished or equipped to make her seaworthy ; it comprehends all articles furnished by ship-chandlers, which are almost innumerable Weaver v. The S G Owens, 1 Wall. Jr. 369. Fed. Cas. No. 17,310
— Household furniture. This term, in a will, includes all personal chattels that may contribute to the use or convenience of the householder, or the ornament of the house; as plate, linen, china, both useful and ornamental, and picfures. But goods in trade, books, and wines will not pass by a bequest of household furniture. 1 Rop. Leg. 203.