Chattel Interest
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An interest In corporeal hereditaments less than a freehold.
2 Kent, Comm. 342.
There may be a chattel interest in real property, as in case of a lease.
Stearns, Real Actions, 115.
A term for years, no matter of how long duration, is but a chattel interest, unless declared otherwise" by statute. See the subject fully treated in 1 Washb. Real Prop. 310 et seq.