In the civil law systems personal property is often called movable property or movables
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movable property - Personal property which can be moved, rather than a building or land that stays in the same place.
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Movable property on land, that which was not automatically sold with the land, included for example larger livestock (wildlife and smaller livestock like chickens, by contrast, was often sold as part of the land).