Chattel Interest
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
An interest in corporeal hereditaments, not amounting to a freehold, as distinguished from a freehold interest; such as an estate for years in land.
1 Steph. Com. 262. 2 Kent's Com. 342.
See Burton's Real Prop. ch.
6.
A subject of ownership, though in its nature real, may be owned in such a way as to constitute a chattel interest, or personal estate.
1 Hilliard% Real Prop. 51.