Chastity

That virtue which prevents the unlawful commerce of the sexes. Content without lawful venery is continence; without unlawful is chastity.

Webster.

CHATTEL (Norman Fr.) Goods of any kind; every species of property, movable or immovable, which is less than a freehold. In the grand coustumier of Normandy it is described as a mere movable, but is set in opposition to a fief or feud; so that not only goods, but whatever was not a feud or fee, were accounted chattels, and it is in this latter sense that our law adopts it.

2 Bl. Comm. 385.

Blackstone says that the word "chattels" is derived from the Latin word "catalla," which in a secondary sense was applied to all movables in general.

19 111. 584.

The word "chattels" is a more comprehensive term than "goods," and includes animate as well as inanimate property, such as slaves, horses, cattle, while "goods" does not include such property.

19 111. 584.

Real chattels are interests which are annexed to or concern real estate, as, a lease for years of land; and the duration of the lease is immaterial, whether it be for one or a thousand years, provided there be a certainty about it, and a reversion or remainder in some other person. A lease to continue until a certain sum of money can be raised out of thfe rents is of the same description; and so in fact will be found toi be any other interest in real estate whose duration is limited to a time certain beyond which it cannot subsist, and which is, therefore, something less than a freehold. Personal chattels are properly things movable, which may be carried about by the owner, such as animals, household stuff, money, jewels, corn, garments, and everything else that can be put in motion, and transferred from one place to another, and the incorporeal hereditaments that grow out of movables.

2 Kent, Comm. 340; Co. Litt. 48a; 4 Coke, 6; 5 Mass. 419; 1 N. H. 350; Story, Eq. Jur. §§ 1021, 1040.

See "Personal Property."

See Personal Property.