What is "personal property"

Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.]

1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

   Every man so termed by way of personal difference.
   --Hooker.

2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.

   The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain.
   --Locke.

3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
   --Addison.

4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. ``Personal communication.''
   --Fabyan.

   The immediate and personal speaking of God.
   --White.

5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

   Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.

   Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation.

   Personal estate or Personal property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.

   Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.

   Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals.

   Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased.

   Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.

   Personal tithes. See under Tithe.

   Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.

n. (context legal English) Any property that is movable, that is, not real estate.

n. movable property (as distinguished from real estate) [syn: personal estate, personalty, private property]

Personal property is generally considered property that is movable, as opposed to real property or real estate. 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. This term is in distinction with immovable property or immovables, such as land and buildings. Movable property on land, for example, larger livestock, was not automatically sold with the land. In contrast, wildlife and smaller livestock like chickens were often sold as part of the land. In fact the word cattle is the Old Norman variant of Old French chatel (derived from Latin capitalis, “of the head”), which was once synonymous with general movable personal property.

Personal Property is a 1937 American romantic comedy film starring Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor and directed by W.S. Van Dyke. It is based on the play The Man in Possession by H. M. Harwood. It was the last movie released with Harlow in it during her lifetime.

Personal property is a type of property.

Personal property may also refer to:

• Personal Property (film), a 1937 romantic comedy film
• "Personal Property" (song), a 1992 rock song by Def Leppard