Found 2 items, similar to chattel.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: chattel chattel n : personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: personal chattel]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Chattel Chattel \Chat"tel\, n. [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. [1913 Webster] Note: 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. [1913 Webster] Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property. [1913 Webster]