Hypertext Webster Gateway: "movables"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Movable \Mov"a*ble\, n.; pl. {Movables}.
1. 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.

Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
--Evelyn.

2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.

Note: The word is not convertible with personal property,
since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are
personal property by our law are immovables by the
Roman law. --Wharton.

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