personalty
- noun
- /ˈpɜrnəltē/
- Formal
:
bienes muebles
- Upon her passing, the estate was divided, and all personalty, including artwork and electronics, was appraised.
- realty and personalty
Examples
-
In legal disputes, personalty refers to items such as furniture, vehicles, and jewelry that can be moved.
-
As James Madison explained, the term "property" included more than realty and personalty, reaching anything of value to someone, including legal rights.
Academic text (2016) -
The Framers certainly thought that property was valuable, in part because it was not limited to realty and personalty. To them, "the early legal conception of property extended far beyond physical possessions to encompass the essence of human life."
Academic text (2016) -
The liens have super priority; however, only as they apply to the realty, personalty, and business revenues of the contaminated site itself and not to the debtors' other assets that are unrelated to the site.
Academic text (1993) -
He claimed ownership of the personalty that was left in the rental unit after the tenant vacated.
Synonyms
68
2.8
Things you can move, like cars or jewelry, that belong to one person, not land
33
3.5
Small personal items a person carries, like clothes or jewelry
16
3.1
Things a person owns that can be moved, like furniture or jewelry
1
6.1
Things someone owns that can be moved, not land and buildings, like a car or jewelry
A thing you own that you can move, like furniture or a car
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Personalty comes from personal, which comes from person meaning 'a person', plus the ending -ty that turns a describing word into a word for a thing. It means the 'personal things' someone owns, like cars or jewelry, and is the opposite of realty, which means land or buildings.