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CHATTELS

Chattels are property movable and immovable, not being freehold. The word chattel is originally the same word with cattle, formed from the late Latin capitalia, meaning heads of cattle, from the Latin caput, head. Chattels are divided into real and personal. Chattels real are such as belong not to the person immediately, but dependently upon something, as an interest in a land or tenement, or a lease, or an interest in advowsoris. Any interest in land or tenements, for example, is a real chattel; so also is a lease, an interest in advowsons, and so forth. Chattels personal are goods which belong immediately to the person of the owner, and include all movable property.
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