Noun
movable property (as distinguished from real estate)
Source: WordNetThe laws of certain states ...give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property.... But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war ...thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable. Alexander Hamilton
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. Norman O. Brown
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped. Wole Soyinka
I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Accordingly, even in the absence of the Mac Shop contract, Biden’s laptop would have eventually been deemed abandoned personal property under Delaware law assuming one of the preconditions listed was met. Source: Internet
According to the arrest warrant, police charged Storrelli with assault, a felony, and injury to personal property, a misdemeanor. Source: Internet