Chăt'tel, n.

(chăt/tl) (Synop., § 130), n. [O. Fr. chatal, chaptal, chaptel, cheptel. See CATTLE.] (Law.) Every kind of 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 belong immediately to the person of a man; real are such as appertain not immediately to the person, but to something by way of dependency, as a box with the title deeds of land. Bouvier.