What is CHATTEL? Definition of CHATTEL in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
An article of personal property; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. People v. Holbrook, 13 Johns., N.Y., 94; U. S. v. Sischo, C.C.A.Wash., 270 F. 958, 961. A thing personal and movable. Castle v. Castle, C.C.A.Haw., 267 F. 521, 522. Things which in law are deemed personal property, they are divisible into chattels real and chattels personal.
The term "chattels" is a more comprehensive one than "goods," as it includes animate as well as inanimate property. 2 Chit.Bl.Comm. 383, note. In a devise, however, they may be of the same import. Shep.Touch. 447; 2 Fonbl. Eq. 335.
Chattel Interest
An interest in corporeal hereditaments less than a freehold. 2 Kent, Comm. 342.
Personal Chattels
Movable things. 2 Bl.Comm. 387; 2 Kent, 340; Co.Litt. 48a; 4 Co. 6; In re Gay, 5 Mass. 419; Miller v. Hirschmann, 170 Md. 145, 183 A. 259, 263. Evidences of debt are chattels personal. Greene Line Terminal Co. v. Martin, 122 W.Va. 483, 10 S.E.2d 901, 906.
Real Chattels
Such as concern, or savor of, the realty, such as leasehold estates; interests issuing out of, or annexed, to, real estate; such chattel interests as devolve after the manner of realty. Mozley & Whitley; 2 Bl.Comm. 386; In re Dalton's Estate, 183 Iowa, 1013, 168 N.W. 332, 334; Intermountain Realty Co. v. Allen, 60 Idaho 228, 90 P.2d 704, 706, 122 A.L.R. 647; Keystone Pipe & Supply Co. v.
Crabtree, 174 Okl. 562, 50 P.2d 1086, 1088. An interest in real estate less than freehold, Lincoln Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Fort Wayne v. Nathan, 215 Ind. 178, 19 N.E.2d 243, 249.
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