What is "things personal"

Thing \Thing\ (th[i^]ng), n. [AS. [thorn]ing a thing, cause, assembly, judicial assembly; akin to [thorn]ingan to negotiate, [thorn]ingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding a thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding a thing, formerly also, an assembly, court, Icel. [thorn]ing a thing, assembly, court, Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally used of the transaction of or before a popular assembly, or the time appointed for such an assembly; cf. G. dingen to bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before a court, negotiate, Goth. [thorn]eihs time, perhaps akin to L. tempus time. Cf. Hustings, and Temporal of time.]

1. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

   God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind.
   --Gen. i. 25.

   He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt.
   --Gen. xiv. 23.

   A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
   --Keats.

2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material.

   Ye meads and groves, unconscious things!
   --Cowper.

3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.

   [And Jacob said] All these things are against me.
   --Gen. xlii. 36.

   Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
   --Matt. xxi. 2

4. 4. A portion or part; something.

   Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom.
   --Tillotson.

5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.

   See, sons, what things you are!
   --Shak.

   The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me.
   --Addison.

   I'll be this abject thing no more.
   --Granville.

   I have a thing in prose.
   --Swift.

6. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

   Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense.

   And them she gave her moebles and her thing.
   --Chaucer.

   Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English, and is still heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in careful composition.

   In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously.
   --Chaucer.

   Hearkening his minstrels their things play.
   --Chaucer.

7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.

8. [In this sense pronounced t[i^]ng.] In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
   --Longfellow.

   Things personal. (Law) Same as Personal property, under Personal.

   Things real. Same as Real property, under Real.