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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chattel \Chat"tel\, noun [OF. 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.
Note: 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.
{Chattel mortgage} (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chattel
noun: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: {personal chattel}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "chattel": acquest, belongings, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, captive, chattel slave, chattels, churl, concubine, debt slave, effects, estate and effects, galley slave, goods, havings, helot, hereditament, holdings, homager, incorporeal hereditament, lares and penates, liege, liege man, liege subject, movables, odalisque, peon, possessions, properties, property, serf, servant, slave, subject, theow, things, thrall, vassal, villein
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