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Personal Property: Anything a person owns other than real estate.
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Personal property - Anything a person owns other than real estate.
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Personal Property definition:
Chattels, goods, property other than real property.
Related Terms: Movable, Real Property, Chose In Action
Also known in law as chattels.

Personal Property
n.Movable assets like car,furniture animals etc are called personal property.It is also called personalty.It is not real property,money or investments.
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Personal Property: Defined by the law as "things movable." This is distinguished from the term "real property," which includes things such as trees, buildings and land.
Petition: A formal request that the court take some action; a complaint.

Personal Property: Property that is not real estate.
Petition: A formal request that the court take some action; a complaint.
Petitioner: The person who initiates the divorce by filing the petition.

Personal property - Anything a person owns other than real estate.
Personal recognizance - In criminal proceedings, the pretrial release of a defendant without bail upon his or her promise to return to court. (See also recognizance.) ...

Personal Property:
Property that is not real property; things moveable, also known as chattels.
Personation:
To assume the identity of, with intent to deceive.

personal property - All property owned by an individual that is not attached to land.

Personal property: All property, except real estate, that can be owned; includes money, jewelry, vehicles, stocks, copyrights, etc.
Pertain: To relate to; to belong to.

personal property
n. same as "personalty."
personal service
n. delivering a summons, complaint, notice to quit tenancy or other legal document which must be served by handing it directly to the person named in the document.

personal property see property
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Personal Property
Tangible physical property (such as cars, clothing, furniture and jewelry) and intangible personal property. This does not include real property such as land or rights in land.

personal property General term referring to any property that is not real property; i.e., that is not land, something growing on land, or a building constructed on land.

PERSONAL PROPERTY. The right or interest which a man has in things personal; it consists of things temporary and movable, and includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendable to the heirs at law.

Term: Personal Property (Personalty)
Definition: Movable property not attached to realty; chattels.

Personal property that can be felt or touched. Examples include furniture, cars, jewelry and artwork. However, cash and checking accounts are not tangible personal property.

personal property
n. same as "personalty."
See also: personalty
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Personal property left by an owner who intentionally relinquishes all rights to its control. Real property may not be abandoned. See Adverse Possession.

Personal property is liable, in the hands of the executor, for the payment of debts, and the purchaser is therefore exempted from seeing to the application of the purchase money, ...

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The personal property of a person dying intestate devolves according to an entirely different set of rules (see Intestacy). In Scotland the rules of descent differ from the above in several particulars.

See personal property, real estate, community property, separate property.
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1. Personal property that the surviving spouse of a decedent is automatically entitled to receive from the decedent’s estate.

A gift or personal property in a will (to a legatee). A legacy may be: (1) specific (a gift of a specified thing e.g. "my gold wedding ring"); (2) demonstrative (a gift, in its nature general, ...

Tangible Personal Property Memorandum (TPPM) - A legal document that is referred to in a will and used to guide the distribution of tangible personal property.

TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY: Anything other than real estate or money, including furniture, cars, jewelry and china.

Bequest Personal property (anything but real estate) left under the terms of a will.
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Chattel: Personal property.
Child Custody: A court's determination of which parent or relative should have physical and/or legal control and responsibility for a minor child(ren).

Chattel
Personal property.
Closing Statement
The statement which lists the financial settlement between buyer and seller, and also the costs each must pay. A separate statement for buyer and seller is sometimes prepared.

An article of personal property.
Chief Judge:
Presiding or administrative judge in a court.

GAGE
contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt, a pawn. (q. v.) Hence mortgage is a dead... more
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Wager of law. (q. v.) ... more ...

Personal Property Used to describe anything not classified as real property (also known as chattels).

bequest by will of personal property, similar in many respects to a gift causa mortis. A legacy ordinarily is distinguished from a devise, which transfers real property by will. The person who receives a legacy is called a legatee.

Chattel See Personal Property. Circumstantial Evidence Evidence purportedly based on inferences as opposed to direct evidence. Circumstantial evidence is an invention.

(Land or buildings are described as "real property".) Chattels are also known as personal property (or personalty). A freehold property is not a chattel, but a leasehold is.

Type of ownership of real or personal property by two or more persons in which each owns an undivided interest in the whole and attached to which is the right of survivorship.

2 : an interest in personal property or fixtures created by a security agreement that secures payment or performance of an obligation <the creditor had a security interest in the inventory and accounts receivable of the business> ...

Personal property concerns itself with rights in personam, or relating to chattels. Despite common assumptions, the idea of property in property law itself remain indefinable.

The act of assuming and exercising right of ownership over personal property belonging to another, altering its condition or excluding the real owner's rights.

Estate: An estate consists of personal property (car, household items, and other tangible items), real property, and intangible property, such as stock certificates and bank accounts, ...

A gift of personal property by will.
Bicycle. Held to be a "carriage" within a statute forbidding fast driving. Taylor v. Goodwin, L.R., 4 Q.B.D. 228 (1879).

CHATTEL : An item of personal property.
CHILD : Any individual entitled to take, as a child under law, by intestate succession, from the parent whose relationship is involved, and excludes any person who is only a stepchild, foster child, ...

bequest - A gift by will of personal property.
best evidence - In proving the content of a writing, the best evidence is the writing itself, and subject to exceptions of unavailability of the writing, ...

chattel: article of personal property
citation: 1) summons to appear; 2) reference to authorities in support of an argument
clerk's extract: a summary of a trial which is written by a clerk ...

chattel: A piece of personal property.
Child abuse: Hurting a child physically, sexually or emotionally.
Child advocate: Someone with special training appointed by the court to help a child in a case.

Chattel -An article of personal property.
Child -Offspring of parentage; progeny.
Chronological -Arranged in the order in which events happened; according to date.

A transfer of real property (land) or personal property (goods) as security for the repayment of money borrowed. The creditor to whom the mortgage is made is the mortgagee, the debtor who makes it is the mortgagor.
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unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny (illegal taking and carrying away of personal property belonging to another with the purpose of depriving the owner of its possession) or felony;
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Chattels: All property except real property; personal property. For example: jewelry, clothing, furniture, and appliances.
Child: Any person under the age of sixteen (16) years of age.

LEGACY
An outdated legal word meaning personal property left by a will. The more common term for this type of property is bequest. Compare devise.

estate - A collective term meaning all real and personal property owned by a person.
estoppel - A person's own act, or acceptance of facts, which preclude later claims to the contrary.

Arson: a willful or malicious burning, or attempt to burn, a home, public place, vehicle or any personal property of another.
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court to decide whether the trial was conducted properly.

A contract conveying from one entity to another the use of real or personal property for a designated period of time in return for payment or other consideration.
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"Personal property" or "personalty" are other words sometines used to describe the concept of chattel. The word "chattel" came from the feudal era when "cattle" was the most valuable property besides land.
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