Effects

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  effects
       n : property of a personal character that is portable but not
           used in business; "she left some of her personal effects
           in the house"; "I watched over their effects until they
           returned" [syn: {personal effects}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "effects":
     acquest, belongings, catalog goods, chattels, clobber, commodities,
     consumer goods, consumer items, crap, estate and effects, gear,
     goods, goods for sale, havings, hereditament, holdings,
     incorporeal hereditament, inventory, job lot, junk, line,
     line of goods, mail-order goods, merchandise, paraphernalia,
     personal property, possessions, properties, property, shit,
     sideline, staples, stock, stock-in-trade, stuff, things, vendibles,
     wares
  
  

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

  EFFECTS. This word used simpliciter is equivalent to property or, worldly 
  substance, and may carry the whole personal estate, when used in a will. 5 
  Madd. Ch. Rep. 72; Cowp. 299; 15 Ves. 507; 6 Madd. Ch. R. 119. But when it 
  is preceded and connected with words of a narrower import, and the bequest 
  is not residuary, it will be confined to species of property ejusdem generis 
  with those previously described. 13 Ves. 39; 15 Ves. 826; Roper on Leg. 210.