Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Law 1996. Any species of property not real estate or freehold. A Dictionary of Law 1893 . In modern American legal usage, a Chattel includes all personal and movable property, including a servant. The term merchandise belongs to movable things only.
Movable things follow the person, immovable their locality.
A rule, particularly an established or permanent rule, prescribed by the supreme power of a State to its subjects, for regulating their actions, particularly their social actions. Commercial law or law-merchant . The system of rules by which trade and commercial intercourse are regulated between merchants. Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language 1828 . A Dictionary of Law 1893 .