Catalla

Lat. Chattels, or catals, as anciently written. A term including all property moveable and immoveable, except fees and freeholds; (omnia bona mobilia et immobilia, quae nec feoda sunt, nec libera tenementa.) Spelman. Termes de la ley, voc.

Catals. Reg. Orig. 139 b. 1 Steph. Com. 262.

See Chattels. This word is considered by Spelman as derived, by contraction, from capitalia, (which see.) The singular catallum rarely occurs, although Bracton uses it in several places. Catalla, according to the same writer, had nearly or quite the sense of averia, (beasts or cattle), being demandable under that name. Bract. fol.

159 b.

See Averia. It seems to have been from a very early period united with the word bona, in the phrase bona et catalla, of which the familiar modern phrase goods and chattels is a translation. Bract. fol.

60 b. Reg. Orig. 140, 141.