Catalla

In old English Law. Chattels. The word among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, "cattle," but, in a secondary sense, the term was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or feud. Wharton.

— Catalla otiosa. Dead goods or chattels, as distinguished from animals. Idle cattle, that is, such as were not used for working, as distinguished from beasts of the plow; called also animalia otiosa. Bract fols. 217, 217b; 3 Bl. Comm. 9.

I. I In old English law. Chattels immovable, except fees and freeholds. or chattels as distinguished from animals as were not used for the plough. Catallis captis nomine districtionis, v. reddendls. v. De catallis, etc.

Inold English law. Chat tels. The word amoug the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, “cattle,” but, in a secondary sense, the term was applied to all movabies in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or feud. Wharton, Catalla juste possessa amitti non possunt. Chattels justly possessed cannot be lost, Jenk. Cent. 28.

I. Chattels; all goods except fees and freeholds. Catalla odiosa: dead goods [not animals]; idle cattle [not beasts of the plough]. Catallis reddendis. v. De.

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.