Personalty
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Personal property.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
That which is movable; that which is the subject of personal property and not of a real property.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Personal property; movable property; chattels. An abstract of personal. In old practice, an action was said to be in the personalty, where it was brought against the right persen or the person against whom in law It lay. Old Nat Brev. 92; Cowell.
— Quasi personalty. Things which are movable in point of law, though fixed to things real, either actually, as emblements, (fructus indus-triales,) fixtures, etc.; or fictitiously, as chat-tels-real, leases for years, etc.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Personal property, — including whether animate or inanimate, which and sometimes things quasi movable, whether tangible or not, such as choses cannot be beneficially obtained without tions of interest connected with and leases for years.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Personal property. Mixed real; for they are subject to the statutes pure personalty is not. not dilatory, one impetentis: at the risk of nondum traditee, est yet deliyered, is the administered in a material point. omission, v. Waste. or profits. time; for time longer if for a time which time it takes effect and for remoteness.; purchase. proprio, I. (A interest.) Nearness of profit. Persona Persona praedilecta: a of suing. person, not real. Persoestate, assets, propthe heir, on the death Personal action, Replevin. Personal administrator; sometimes, personalty: chattels of Mortmain, which
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Personal property; the antithesis of real property. Personalty signifies generally any personal property, in contradistinction to realty, which signifies real property. In our old law, an action was said to be in the personalty wlien it was brought for damages out of the personal estate of the defendant. Personalty is either pure or mixed. Pure personalty is personalty unconnected with land; mixed personalty is a personal interest in land, or connected therewith. The distinction is important with reference to the statutes of mortmain, as pure personalty is not within the operation of those statutes. Mosleij Sf W.