The Tender For Law

Volume 3

Jul 09, 2013 10:36 PM

Ceit Butler

And finally, this: Chattel: "an article of personal property; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. A thing personal and movable. The term "chattels" is a more comprehensive one than "goods", as it includes animate as well as inanimate property." and then this: Claim and Delivery: "an action at law for the recovery of specific personal chattels wrongfully taken and detained, with damages which the taking or detention has caused; in substance a modern modification of the Common Law action of Replevin."