0 a personal possession:
1 a piece of personal property, including something that can be moved, or rights such as copyright and patents, but not usually including land and buildings:
If your husband dies intestate you will inherit all personal goods and chattels such as the furniture and car, plus the assets up to £125,000.
Where a chattel is unlawfully on the plaintiff's land and has caused actual damage, the plaintiff may retain the chattel until the damage has been paid for.
It is appalling that in some divorce situations, kids are treated like chattel, like the dishwasher or the retirement account.
In addition, persistent poor harvests had led to heavy borrowings on chattels, real estate and life insurance policies.
Thus, for example, he was allowed to trade in movable chattels, but he could not sell real estate.
Moreover, it applies, more or less symmetrically, to one's own person, to land, and to chattels.
Marriage fines could be utilized both to keep track of the movements of villein chattels and land and to restrict tenant mobility.
The likely outcome is that it would be held to be a chattel.
Many defences will rely on the transferability of chattels, though.
Markovits notes that while some merchants provided for their mistresses in their wills, "most of them seem to have treated the local women as chattels devoid of any right".
No reports have been received on the requisitioning of this camp and the chattels contained in it other than communications of an entirely routine character.
