chattel : Idioms & Phrases

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Chattel mortgage

  • noun a loan to buy some personal item; the item (or chattel) is security for the loan
WordNet
  • (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.
Webster 1913

personal chattel

  • noun personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
    chattel; movable.
WordNet

To levy on goods and chattels

  • to take into custody or seize specific property in satisfaction of a writ.
Webster 1913