personal chattel

personal chattel
Any article of tangible personal property. An account receivable is not a personal chattel. Plunkett-Jarrell Grocery Co. v Terry, 222 Ark 784, 263 SW2d 229, 44 ALR2d 917. See personal effects; personal things.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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