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Chattel

Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

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Personalty 76% connected

The state of being a person; personality.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Movable 92% connected

Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Immovable noun · 78% connection

property consisting of houses and land

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Leasehold noun · 78% connection

land or property held under a lease

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Personal estate noun · 78% connection

movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

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Real estate noun · 78% connection

property consisting of houses and land

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Realty noun · 78% connection

property consisting of houses and land

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Abatement noun · 78% connection

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

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Abator noun · 78% connection

A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

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Abstract adjective · 78% connection

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: item, movable, immovable, property, except.
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Allodium noun · 78% connection

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: item, movable, immovable, property, except.
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Analogy noun · 78% connection

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: item, movable, immovable, property, except.
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Annexation verb · 78% connection

The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the c…

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Assessment noun · 78% connection

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: item, movable, immovable, property, except.
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Bargain noun · 78% connection

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: item, movable, immovable, property, except.
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Barony noun · 78% connection

In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of…

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Chilostomata n. pl. · 78% connection

An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the…

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Commodity noun · 78% connection

That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (ex…

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Corner noun · 78% connection

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of proper…

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Cry verb · 78% connection

To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: item, movable, immovable, property, except.
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Disseize verb · 78% connection

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to d…

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Effect noun · 78% connection

Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town…

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Effects noun · 78% connection

property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in the house"; "I w…

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Estate noun · 78% connection

A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves…

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Extensive adjective · 78% connection

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…

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