chattel

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.

An article of personal property; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. People v. Holbrook, 13 Johns. (N. Y.) 94; Homblower v. Proud, 2 Barn. & Aid. 335; State v. Bartlett, 55 Me. 211; State v. Brown, 9 Baxh (Tenn.) 54, 40 Am. Rep. 81. The name given to things which in law are deemed personal property. Chattels are divided into chattels real and chattels personui ; chattels reni being interests in land which devolve after the manner of personal estate, as leaseholds. As opposed to freeholds, they are regarded as personal estate. But, as being interests in real estate, they are calied "chattels reni," to distinguish them from movables, which are calied "chattels personal." Mozley & Whitley. Chattels personal are movables only; chattels real are such as savor only of the realty. Putnam v. Westcott, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 73; Hawkins v. Trust Co. (C. Oil 79 Fed. 50; Insurance Co., v. Haven, 95 U. S. 251, 24 L. Ed. 473; Knapp v. Jones, 143 111. 375, 32 N. E. 382. The term "chattels" is a more comprehensive one than "goods," as it includes animate as well as inanimate property. 2 Chit. Bl. Comm. 383, note. In a devise, however, they seem to be of the same import. Shep. Touch. 447; 2 Fonbl. Eq. 335.

— Chattel interest. An interest in corporeal hereditaments less than a freehold. 2 Kent, Comm. 342.

— Personal chattels. Things movable which mav be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another. 2 BL Comm. 387.

— Real chattels. Such as concern, or savor of, the realty, such as leasehold estates ; interests issuing out of, or annexed to, real estate; such chattel interests as devolve after the manner of'realty. 2 Bl. Comm. 386.

Any article or subject of property, movable or immovable, not amounting to a freehold. Chattel interest: an interest in corporeal hereditaments, not amounting to a freehold, as distinguished from a freehold interest. Chattel mortgage: a mortgage of goods or personal property. Chattels: movable goods, and all other propei'ty or estate, not amounting to a freehold. Chattels personal: movable goods, or rights or interests incident to them, not annexed to the realty. Chattels real: such chattels as concern, are annexed to, or savor of the realty, but do not amount to a freehold, as, terms for j'ears, mortgages, etc.

An article of personal property; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. The name given to things which in law are deemed personal property. Chattels are divided into chattels real and chattels personal; chattels real being interests in land which devolve after the manner of personal estate, as leaseholds. As opposed to freeholds, they are regarded as movables, which are called "chattels personal." Mozley & Whitley. Chattels personal are movables only; chattels real are such as savor only of the realty. 19 Johns. 73. The term "chattels" is a more comprehensive one than "goods," as it includes animate as well as inanimate property. 2 Chit. Bl. Comm. 383, note. In a devise, however, they seem to be of the same import. Shep. Touch. 447; 2 Fonbl. Eq. 335.

Things personal include not only things movable, but something more: the whole of which is comprehended under the general name of "chattels," which Coke says is a French word signifying goods — from the technical Latin caialla, which meant, primarily, beasts of husbandry, and, 1 Minturn v. Larue, 23 How. 436 (1B59), Nelson, J.; 76 Va. 9fU; 11 id. 319. 2 [State V. Carron. 18 Iowa, 375-76 (1865), cases; State V. Prizer, 49 id. 532 (1878); 5 id. 39 1; 59 id. 686; 70 id. 464; 28 Minn. 52. 3 Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. 608-9 (1850). * State V. Brihkhaus, 34 Minn. 235 (18S5), Mitchell, J. s Smith V. Commonwealth, 64 Pa. 211-14 (1867), cases; secondarily, all movables in general. In Normandy, a chattel stood opposed to a fief or feud.i See further Cattle. ' Any species of property not real estate or freehold.2^L CJj IiMR^ersonal. Chattels personal are, strictlj Tthings movable: vchich may be annexed to or attenjj^dln the person of the owner, and carried about with him from one part of the world to another.' Such are animals, household stuff, money, jewels, grain, garments, and everything else that can be put in motion and transferred from place to place; ' also, choses in action; and slaves were. Chattel real. Chattels real, says Coke, are such as concern, or savor of, the realty; as, terms for years of land, estates by a statute-merchant, statute-staple, or the like. These are called real chattels, as being interests issuing out of, or annexed to, real estate: of which they have one quality, viz., immobility, which denominates them " real; " but want the other, viz., a suflflcient, legal, indeterminate duration; and this want it is that constitutes them " chattels." The utmost period for which they can last is fixed and determinate, either for a space of time certain, or till a particular sum of money be raised out of a particular income; so that they are not equal, in law, to the lowest estate of freehold,— a lease for another's life.* Se«FixTORE; Goons; Mortgage; Property; Sale.

chatelle,/r., Chattel. A chattel; any article of property not a freehold or fee in land. Ghateux, cateux, fr.. Chattels, catcils: plural, v. Catalla. Cateux meubles, immeubles: goods movable, immovable. Chattels real: such as are annexed to, or arise from, real property, but yet do not amount to a freehold, such as a lease for years. Chattels personal: movable goods, or interests concerning them, not annexed to the realty. Chattel interest: an interest in realty not amounting to a freehold, and which is usually governed by the law of personal property.

[L. Fr. chatelle, L. Lat. captale, catallum.] Any article or subject of property, moveable or immoveable, not amounting to a freehold. 1 Steph. Com. 262. Chattel is a very comprehensive term in our law, and includes every species of property, which is not real estate or a freehold. 2 Kent's Com. 342. It is more frequently used (like bona, goods,) in the plural number. See Chattels, Catalla.