{"id":359272,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/chattel.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"chattel","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/chattel.html","title":{"rendered":"Chattel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p>&#91;Old French <i>chatel<\/i> goods, property, from Medieval Latin <i>capitale<\/i>, from neuter of <i>capitalis<\/i> chief, principal see <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/capital.html\">capital<\/a> &#93;<br \/>  <b>:<\/b> an item of tangible or intangible personal property <br \/>  <i>;esp<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/chattel-personal.html\">chattel personal <\/a> in this entry <i>NOTE: In some jurisdictions the term <i>chattel<\/i> is restricted to items of tangible and movable personal property. Other jurisdictions also classify intangible assets and property items as chattels. <\/i> <\/p>\n<p><b>chattel personal<\/b><br \/>  <i>pl:<\/i> <b>chattels personal<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> an item of tangible movable personal property (as livestock or an automobile) that is not permanently connected with real estate <\/p>\n<p><b>chattel real<\/b><br \/>  <i>pl:<\/i> <b>chattels real<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> an interest (as a leasehold or profit a prendre) in an item of immovable property (as land or a building) that is less than a freehold estate compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/fixture.html\">fixture<\/a> <i>NOTE: Interests that are considered chattels real have been treated by the common law as personal property despite being interests in real property. <\/i> <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Chattel&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-359272","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/359272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=359272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}