chattel
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 358 - Gay's Gold · 1871Most cited · 7 citing opinions
The word chattel, in its ordinary signification, includes every species of property which is not real estate or freehold, and the words goods, wares, and merchandise are undoubtedly used in this statute to express the same meaning.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “chattel” — 7 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.