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Personal property
Personal property is generally considered
property that is movable, as opposed to
real property or
real estate. In
common law systems, personal property may also be called
chattels or
personalty. In
civil law systems, personal property is often called
movable property or
movables – any property that can be moved from one location to another. This term is in distinction with
immovable property or immovables, such as land and buildings. Movable property on land, that which was not automatically sold with the land, included for example a larger
livestock (wildlife and smaller livestock like chickens, by contrast, were often sold as part of the land). In fact the word
cattle is the Old
Norman variant of
Old French chatel (derived from Latin
capitalis, “of the head”), which was once synonymous with general movable personal property.
personal property
Noun
1. movable property (as distinguished from real estate)
(synonym) personal estate, personalty, private property
(hypernym) property, belongings, holding, material possession
(hyponym) chattel, personal chattel
Personal property
Any
assets other than real estate.
Tangible Property
Property that has physical substance and can be touched; Anything other than real estate or money, including furniture, cars, jewelry and china. Intangible property (example; a check account) lacks this physical quality.
That which may be felt or touched; it must necessarily be corporeal, but it may be real or personal. A house and a horse are, each, tangible property. The terni is used in contradistinction to property not tangible. By the latter expression, is; meant that kind of property which, though in possession as respects the right, and, consequently, not strictly choses in action, yet differ; from goods, because they are neither tangible nor visible, though the thing produced from the right be perfectly so. In this class may be mentioned copyrights and patent-rights.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
personal property