See Also: Chattel(money)
chattel(dictionary)
chattel(dictionary)
Chattel(law)
Chattel Mortgage(money)
Chattel Paper(money)
Chattel mortgage(finance)
Chattel Mortgage(law)

chattel (iou)



chattel noun. ME.

a. Property. Only in ME.
b. Livestock. rare. Only in 17.
A movable possession (in Law including immaterial but transferable possessions, as leases etc.); (chiefly rhet.) a slave, a bondman. Usu. in pl. ME.
chattels personal Law all movable goods. chattels real Law: such as concern the realty, as leases etc. goods and chattels all kinds of personal property.
Comb.: chattel interest (now rare) an interest in leasehold property; chattel mortgage N. Amer. the conveyance of chattels by mortgage as security for a debt; chattel slave a human being held as a chattel; chattel slavery = chattelism.
chattelism noun the system of holding human beings as chattels M19.