chattels
Personal tangible assets
Chattels are items of personal property—movable possessions as opposed to real estate or land.
The term appears most often in legal contexts: The divorce settlement divided their chattels.
The phrase goods and chattels is a traditional legal formula covering all movable property.
Historically, enslaved people and wives were classified as chattels, hence chattel slavery—the ownership of humans as property.
Movable room objects
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- equipmentTools for a task
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- vehiclesMachines for transportation
belongings · goods · effects · personal property · movables · appurtenances · fixtures · implements
Formal honorific or name
- deedWritten property conveyance
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
- encumbranceHindrance or legal claim
- lienClaim securing debt
mortgage · bill of sale · pledge · bailment · attachment · seizure · distraint · replevin
Objects passed through family lines
- bequestGift left by will
- legacyWhat's passed down
- probateWill validation proceedings
- estateProperty and grounds
beneficiary · testament · decedent · intestate · patrimony · succession · entailment · dower
Involuntary subjugation to another
- enslavementForced human ownership
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
abolitionism · human trafficking · ownership · auction · plantation · subjugation · dehumanization · forced labor
furniture
Movable room objects
vehicles · belongings · goods · effects · personal property · movables · appurtenances · fixtures · implements · utensils
title
Formal honorific or name
- deedWritten property conveyance
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
- encumbranceHindrance or legal claim
lien · mortgage · bill of sale · pledge · bailment · attachment · seizure · distraint · replevin · conversion
heirlooms
Objects passed through family lines
estate · beneficiary · testament · decedent · intestate · patrimony · succession · entailment · dower · distribution
bondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
- enslavementForced human ownership
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
emancipation · abolitionism · human trafficking · ownership · auction · plantation · subjugation · dehumanization · forced labor · bondsman
- belongingsbelongings, possessions, wallet, stuff, clothes
- possessionsbelongings, goods, jewelry, effects, personalty
- propertyproperty, land, ownership, house, home
- personal propertypersonalty, movables, belongings, possessions, goods
- property lawfreehold, leasehold, deed, deeds, title
- abandonment lawabandonment, neglect, desertion, forsaking, relinquishment
chattelsreal property
Land plus permanent attachments
real estate · realty · immovables · land · fixtures
chattelspropertylessness
Lacking owned assets
dispossession · impoverishment · destitution · pennilessness · indigence
chattelspersons
Individual humans, plural
freemen · citizens · human beings · subjects
- chattel slaveryPersons owned as movable property
- chattel mortgageLoan secured by possessions
- chattel slavesPersons owned as movable property
- human chattelEnslaved persons as assets