personal property

personal property
personal property see property

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

personal property
index effects, movable, paraphernalia (personal belongings), personalty, possessions

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


personal property
property that is not real property. It includes goods and chattels but also leaseholds and land, whether freehold or leasehold, held on trust for sale and conversion into money.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


personal property
All property other than land and buildings attached to land. Cars, bank accounts, wages, securities, a small business, furniture, insurance policies, jewelry, patents, pets, and season baseball tickets are all examples of personal property. Personal property may also be called personal effects, movable property, goods and chattel, and personalty. Compare: real estate
Category: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure & Debt
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.

personal property
USA
Tangible and intangible assets of an entity, other than its real property. It is a classification of asset over which an entity will grant a security interest under Article 9 of the UCC.
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Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. . 2010.


personal property
n. Property that is movable, unlike real estate or things attached to the real estate. However, things attached to real estate may be considered as personal property, also known as personalty, if they can be relocated without doing irrevocable damage-a shed, perhaps, or even a mobile home. Personal property encompasses tangible and intangible non-real property.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


personal property
Everything that is the subject of ownership that does not come under the denomination of real property; any right or interest that an individual has in movable things.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


personal property
I
Everything that is the subject of ownership that does not come under the denomination of real property; any right or interest that an individual has in movable things.
 II Anything a person owns other than real estate.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

personal property
n.
   same as "personalty."
   See also: personalty

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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