Goods

In Contracts. The term goods is not so wide as chattels, for It applies to inanimate objects, and does not include animals or chattels real, as a lease for years of house or land, which chattels does include.

Co. Lltt 118; 1 Russ. 376.

Goods will not Include fixtures; 4 J. B. Moore 73; a subscription for stock; Webb V. R. Co., 77 Md. 92, 26 Atl. 113, 39 Am. St. Rep. 396; or teams and wagons, notes and accounts due; Van Patten v. Leonard,.55 la.

520, 8 N. W. 334.

In a more limited sense, goods is used for articles of merchandise; 2 Bla. Com. 389, It has been held in Massachusetts that promissory notes were within the term goods in the Statute of Frauds; Baldwin v. Williams, 3 Mete. 365; but see Whittemore v. Gibbs, 24 N. H. 484; so stock or shares of an incorporated company; Tisdale V. Harris, 20 Pick. (Mass.) 9; Colvin v. Williams, 3 H. & J. (Md.) 38, 5 Am. Dec. 417; North v. Forest, 15 Conn. 400; so, in some cases, bank notes and coin; Citizens’ Bank v. Steamboat Co., 2 Sto. 52, Fed. Cas. No. 2,730; U. S. v. Moulton, 5 Mas. 537, Fed. Cas. No. 15,827; Rogers v. Morton, 12 Wend. (N. Y.) 486. The word “goods” is always used to designate wares, commodities, and personal chattels; the word effects is the equivalent of the word movables; Appeal of Vandergrift, 83 Pa. 126. In Wills. In wills goods is nomen generaliaaimum, and, if there is nothing to limit ey, plate, furniture, etc.; 1 Atk. 180; 1 P. Wms. 267; 1 Bro. C. O. 128; 4 Buss. 370; Wms. Ex. 1014; 1 Bop. Leg. 250; but in general It will be limited by the context of the will; see 2 Belt, Suppl. Ves. 287; 1 Ves. 63; Jackson v. Vanderspreigle’s Ex’r, 2 Dali. (U. S.) 142, 1 L. Ed. 118; Sugd. Vend. 493. See 1 Jarm. Wills 751; and the titles Biens; Chattels; Fubnituke.