personal property
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legal concept: property which is movable and not permanently affixed to land
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- Subclass of
- property
- Said to be same as
- movable property
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Personal property is property that is movable. In common law systems, personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “personal property” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.