Chattel mortgage

Chattel mortgage
Chattel Chat"tel, n. [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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

{Chattel mortgage} (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property. [1913 Webster]


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