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chattel personal

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Personal chattels

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Goods and chattels

Goods and chattels, the general denomination of things personal, as distinguished from things real, or lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See CHATTELS.

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goods and chattels

goods and chattels : personal property of any kind but sometimes limited to tangible property

Personal action

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Deodand

A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person and for that reason was given to God that is

Chattels or catals

of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b. Chattels personal or in a more narrow and more modern sense, 'chattels' (cf. 'goods and chattels' in the writ of … Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified

chattel

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Heirloom

Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat armor set up in a church, or a tombstone

Pawnbroker

the owner of property pledged against his will. As to the power of an executor to pledge the personal chattels of his testator, see Solomon v. Attenborough, 1913 AC 76. A trustee in bankruptcy may inspect goods … Pawnbroker, contemplates that every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of goods or chattels and who purchases goods or chattels and pays or advances thereon any sum of money, with or under

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