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Definition of Personalty
1. Noun. Movable property (as distinguished from real estate).
Generic synonyms: Belongings, Holding, Property
Specialized synonyms: Chattel, Movable, Personal Chattel, Effects, Personal Effects, Clobber, Stuff
Definition of Personalty
1. n. The state of being a person; personality.
Definition of Personalty
1. Noun. (legal) Any property that is movable; that is, not real estate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Personalty
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personalty
Literary usage of Personalty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The holder of the lien on the real . estate could not insist that both the real
estate and the personalty should be subjected to the payment of his debt, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage by William Wyllys Mackeson, Henry Arthur Smith, Richard Holmes Coote (1884)
"Where a testator bequeathed legacies and annuities, and charged them on real
estate which he devised subject thereto, tha personalty was exonerated (o) ..."
3. Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of Principles by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"Defence of personalty; by Harm to personalty. A defendant, to protect his personalty
from harm impending to it by personalty of the plaintiff, ..."
4. The Practice of the Law in All Its Departments: With a View of Rights by Joseph Chitty (1833)
"The nature, of personalty, and several kinds. personalty is principally distinguished
from Realty by its actual or supposed mobility, and the want of that ..."
5. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Melville Madison Bigelow (1893)
"1461 (2) Extension of Charge to Funeral and Testamentary Expenses 1464 (3) Effect
of expressly subjecting personalty to Charges other than Debts, ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"poses, realty may be treated as personalty, ..r personalty as realty, as in the
case of real estate owned by a partnership, which is treated as personal ..."
7. The Law of Partnership, Including Limited Partnerships. by Francis Marion Burdick (1917)
"To the extent necessary for these purposes, the character of the property is, in
equity, deemed to be changed into personalty. On the death of either ..."
8. The Law of Real Property, in Its Present State: Practically Arranged and by George Crabb (1846)
"personalty. SECT. II. 5 30. LIABILITY TO THE PAYMENT OF DEBTS. SECT. III. § 60.
... Real property is distinguished from personalty in different ways: 1. ..."
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