Chattels

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CHATTELS, property. A term which includes all hinds of property, except the 
  freehold or things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than 
  goods or effects. Debtors taken in execution, captives, apprentices, are 
  accounted chattels. Godol. Orph. Leg. part 3, chap. 6, Sec. 1. 
       2. Chattels are personal or real. Personal, are such as belong 
  immediately to the person of a man; chattels real, are such as either 


  appertain not immediately to the person, but to something by way of 
  dependency, as a box with the title deeds of lands; or such as are issuing 
  out of some real estate, as a lease of lands, or term of years, which pass 
  like personally to the executor of the owner. Co. Litt. 118; 1 Chit. Pr. 90; 
  8 Vin. Ab. 296; 11 Vin. Ab. 166; 14 Vin. Ab. 109; Bac. Ab. Baron, &c. C 2; 2 
  Kent, Com. 278; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Com. Dig. Biens, A; Bouv. Inst. 
  Index, h.t. CHEAT, criminal law, torts. A cheat is a deceitful practice, of 
  a public nature, in defrauding another of a known right, by some artful 
  device, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty. 1 Hawk. 343. 
       2. To constitute a cheat, the offence must be, 1st. of a public nature 
  for every species of fraud and dishonesty in transactions between 
  individuals is not the subject-matter of a criminal charge at common law; it 
  must be such as is calculated to defraud numbers, and to deceive the people 
  in general. 2 East, P. C. 816; 7 John. R. 201; 14 John. R. 371; 1 Greenl. R. 
  387; 6. Mass. R. 72; 9 Cowen, R. 588; 9 Wend. R. 187; 1 Yerg. R. 76; 1 Mass. 
  137. 2. The cheating must be done by false weights, false measures, false 
  tokens, or the like, calculated to deceive numbers. 2 Burr, 1125; 1 W. Bl. 
  R. 273; Holt, R. 354. 
       3. That the object of the defendant in defrauding the prosecutor was 
  successful. If unsuccessful, it is a mere attempt. (q.v.) 2 Mass. 139. When 
  two or more enter into an agreement to cheat, the offence is a conspiracy. 
  (q.v.) To call a man a cheat is slanderous. Hetl. 167; 1 Roll's Ab. 53; 2 
  Lev. 62. Vide Illiterate; Token.