personalty

personalty [pur-suh-nl-tee] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural per·son·al·ties. Law.

1. personal estate or property.

Origin of personalty 1600–10; Anglo-French personalte Late Latin persōnālitās personality Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for personalty Historical Examples of personalty

Everything left to her, both land and personalty, everything!

The Coryston Family

Mrs. Humphry Ward

Personalty, I’d have picked some ultra-violet paint—if any were handy as that would reflect the rays.

Skylark Three

Edward Elmer Smith

It is interpreted so as to give, in many cases, more to the eldest son than the real estate and his share of the personalty.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848

Various

Real property was to be placed on the same footing as personalty, and chargeable no longer on life interest, but on capital value.

Lord Randolph Churchill

Winston Spencer Churchill

His mansion, realty and personalty includes what they have jointly earned as well as that of which he was possessed at marriage.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)

Various

British Dictionary definitions for personalty personalty noun plural -ties

1. law another word for personal property

Word Origin for personalty C16: from Anglo-French, from Late Latin persōnālitās personality Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for personalty n.

legal term, late 15c., from Anglo-French personaltie, corresponding to Middle French personalite, from Medieval Latin personalitas (see personality).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper