Definition of "personalty" [per•son•al•ty]

• Law Personal property; chattels. (noun)

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• "If Jacob had died intestate Barthorpe would have taken what we may call everything, for his uncle's property is practically all in the shape of real estate, in comparison to which the personalty is a mere nothing."
• "And the word you're looking for is "personalty" I think."
• "394 U.S. 576, 616 (1969), that "the flag is a special kind of personalty," a form of property "burdened with peculiar obligations and restrictions.""