different between movable vs personalty

English

Alternative forms

• moveable

Etymology

From Old French movable. Surface etymology is move +? -able

Adjective

movable (comparative more movable, superlative most movable)

1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary
   • 1902, Henry Billings Brown, The Osceola

     The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.

2. Changing from one time to another

Antonyms

• immovable

Derived terms

• movable letter

Translations

Noun

movable (plural movables)

1. Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.

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References

• movable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

personal +? -ty

Noun

personalty (countable and uncountable, plural personalties)

1. (law) Any property that is movable; that is, not real estate.
2. (law) The property that goes to the executor or administrator of the deceased, as distinguished from the realty, which goes to the heirs.
3. The state of being a person; personality.

Synonyms

• movable
• movable property
• personal property

Antonyms

• real estate

Hypernyms

• property

Hyponyms

• intangible personal property
• tangible personal property

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