Editing Personal property (section)

{{Short description|Property which can be moved from one location to another}}
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'''Personal property''' is [[property]] that is movable.<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=Palgrave |first=Robert Harry Inglis |author-link=Inglis Palgrave |title=Personal property |dictionary=Dictionary of political economy |volume=3 |date=1908 |page=96}}</ref> In [[common law]] systems, personal property may also be called '''chattels''' or '''personalty'''. In [[civil law (legal system)|civil law]] systems, personal property is often called '''movable property''' or '''movables'''—any property that can be moved from one location to another.

Personal property can be understood in comparison to [[real estate]], immovable property or [[real property]] (such as land and buildings).

Movable property on land (larger [[livestock]], for example) was not automatically sold with the land, it was "personal" to the owner and moved with the owner.

The word ''cattle'' is the Old [[Norman language|Norman]] variant of [[Old French]] ''chatel'', chattel, and today cheptel (derived from Latin ''capitalis'', "of the head"), which was once synonymous with general movable personal property.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chattel |title=Origin of chattel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814050019/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chattel |archive-date=14 August 2009 |access-date=August 15, 2009}}</ref>