Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chattel

Chattel , noun

[Old French chatel; another form of catel. See Cattle.]

(Law) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc.

Collocations (1)
Chattel mortgage (Law) , a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.