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Personalty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Law Personal property; chattels.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any property that is movable; that is, not real estate.

n. The state of being a person; personality.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state of being a person; personality.

n. Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In law, personal property, in distinction from realty, or real property. See personal, real.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

Word Usage

"If Jacob had died intestate Barthorpe would have taken what we may call everything, for his uncle's property is practically all in the shape of real estate, in comparison to which the personalty is a mere nothing."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

belongings holding property

Cross Reference

action in personalty

Hyponym

stuff personal chattel clobber chattel personal effects

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

personality personal property

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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