Contests for the possession of personal property, when the title is not involved, may also be tried in justice courts.
Personal property is that which can be moved from place to place, and includes everything that a person can own except real estate.
The jurisdiction of the court extends to all cases arising from contracts, or injuries, or damages to personal property, when the amount claimed does not exceed $100.
The treasury addresses itself to labor as well as to consumption, because in France everybody labors, to real more than to personal property, and to agriculture more than to manufactures.
Hildreth says of this provision: "It established the important republican principle, not then introduced into all the states, of the equal distribution of landed as well as personal property.
The common cause, of which they are the manifestations, is an increasing sense of the value and importance of personal property.
They imply a considerable number and diversity of artificial products, valued as articles of personal property.
In primitive society there was very little personal property except in weapons, clothing (such as it was), and trinkets.
Pio Pico alone, in 1851, was assessed for twenty-two thousand acres as well as twenty-one thousand dollars in personal property.
Forster, however, was comparatively land-poor, as may be inferred from the fact that even though the owner of such a princely territory, he was assessed in 1851 on but thirteen thousand dollars in personal property.
Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal propertywithout the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally.
Therefore, if a personal property be taken away from a person, the hypostasis remains.
For although paternity is signified as the form of the Father, nevertheless it is a personal property, being in respect to the person of the Father, what the individual form is to the individual creature.
Other promises concern the coinage, fines, and debts due the late king, the right to dispose by will of personal property, excessive fines, and the punishment of murder.
In restricting the tax to personal property passing by inheritance the measure aims at a crude means of making the burdens of personal more nearly approach those of real property.
If land be difficult of assessment, personal property offers a very much more difficult problem.
It finds a more moderate and restricted exercise in certain graduated duties under the act of 1898, and especially in the duties on legacies and distributive shares of personal property.
In Pennsylvania there was a certain tax on personal property, the taking an account of which did not increase the expense.
In the United States the English Statute of Distribution has been taken as the basis of the law for the distribution of personal property in intestacy, and its principles have been applied to real property also.
The distribution of an intestate's personal property is carried out under the authority of administrators, whose duties are generally the same as those of executors under a will.
It was practiced by the entire large propertied interests, not only in swindling New York City of taxes on real estate, but also those on personal property.
In a sale of personal property, an agent has implied authority to do whatever is usual and necessary in such transactions.
Therefore, all conveyances of such property, whether it is real property or personal property, must be made by the corporation, and cannot be made by the members or shareholders as individuals.
In sales of personal property time is regarded by the law as more important than in sales of land.
Therefore it is that we have a law of personal property, and a law of real property.
About half the states do not require that contracts for the sale of personal property shall be in writing, regardless of the price involved.
Under present law can a contract for sale of personal property be enforced specifically?
These persons make an equitable division, taking as their fee any odd articles of personal property.
Personal property acquired by the deceased and his spouse is not, however, taken from the surviving spouse.
No ceremonials are involved in the transfer of personal property; nor are witnesses necessary, as a general thing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal property" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
