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Personal property is property that is movable. [1] 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.
Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property ... with movable property roughly corresponding to personal property, ...
The division of property into real and personal represents the division into immovable and movable incidentally recognized in Roman law and generally adopted since. "Things personal", according to Blackstone, "are goods, money, and all other movables which may attend the owner's person wherever he thinks proper to go" (Comm. ii. 16).
Property law in the United States is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land and buildings) and personal property, including intangible property such as intellectual property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property. [1]
One categorization scheme specifies three species of property: land, improvements (immovable man-made things), and personal property (movable man-made things). [11] In common law, real property (immovable property) is the combination of interests in land and improvements thereto, and personal property is interest in movable property. Real ...
In law, tangible property is property that can be touched, and includes both real property and personal property (or moveable property), and stands in distinction to intangible property. [ citation needed ]
English law has retained the common law distinction between real property and personal property, whereas the civil law distinguishes between "movable" and "immovable" property. In English law, real property is not confined to the ownership of property and the buildings sited thereon – often referred to as "land".
Personal property is a type of property. In the common law systems personal property may also be called chattels. It is distinguished from real property, or real estate. In the civil law systems personal property is often called movable property or movables – any property that