personal chattel

The wife's personal chattels automatically became the property of her husband.

He'd ordered the Denver cops around as if they were his personal chattel.

But "goods" are defined by section 61(1) of the Act as including: all personal chattels other than things in action and money.

In Massachusetts it is simple larceny to obtain by false pretenses the money or personal chattel of another.

It makes all the Christian Science Church Readers on the globe the personal chattels of Mrs. Eddy.

The conditional bill of sale refers to any assignment or transfer of personal chattels to a person by way of security for the payment of money.

This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives.

All the personal chattels (that is chattels such as furniture, motor cars, and articles of household or personal use or ornament, but not chattels used for business purposes).

The Act applies to contracts where property in 'goods' is transferred or agreed to be transferred for a monetary consideration, in other words: where property (ownership) in personal chattels is sold.

Bullen and Leake and Jacobs define a bill of sale as "a document transferring a proprietary interest in personal chattels from one individual (the "grantor") to another (the "grantee"), without possession being delivered to the grantee".

In the case of Cooper v. Chitty (see infra), Lord Mansfield said, "In form, trover is a fiction; in substance a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongly converted by another to his own use.

Later on that day another cousin told Violet that the bungalow would be hers and finally Mr Crowden spoke to her and told her that she would be entitled to keep the bungalow and the personal chattels, and receive a legacy of £5,000.

Absolute bills of sale, which do not represent any form of security whatsoever, are simply documents evidencing assignments, transfers and other assurances of personal chattels, which are substantially no more than mere contracts of sale of goods covered by the common law of contract and the sale of goods law.