In old English Law. Chattels. The word among the Normans prlma-rlly signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, “cattle,” but, in a secondary sense, the term was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or fend, wharton
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
