Subject: CHATTELS Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 00:41:21 -0400 From: "Steven J. Coker"Organization: http://members.tripod.com/~SCROOTS/index.html To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Extracted From: A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856 by John Bouvier CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA CHATTELS, property. A term which includes all kinds 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.... 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.... ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== ********** STOP QUOTING ABOVE THIS LINE ********** Remaining subscribed or otherwise using the Forum in any manner constitutes acknowledgment that you have read and agreed to the Forum Policy Statement. The policy is provided automatically with new subscribe requests and is posted at the Forum web sites. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/9980/index.html SUBSCRIBE SCRoots-L mailto:SCRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com?body=subscribe SUBSCRIBE SCRoots-D mailto:SCRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com?body=subscribe UNSUBSCRIBE SCRoots-L mailto:SCRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com?body=unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE SCRoots-D mailto:SCRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com?body=unsubscribe Reading is to the Mind, what exercise is to the Body. - Joseph Addison