chattel Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
personal chattel; movable.

OF. chatel; another form of catel. See Cattle.

(Law) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects. ✍ Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc.