Real Chattel – an interest in real property that is less than a freehold or fee, such as an estate for years in land (i.e. a leasehold)

real:

1. Pertaining to land or real estate.

2. Pertaining to the corporeal rather than the incorporeal.

3. Not fictitious or imagined.

real chattel:

1. Interests in real estate less than freehold. EXAMPLE, a n estate for years; a leasehold. [1]

chattel real:
(16c)

1. A real-property interest that is less than a freehold or fee, such as a leasehold estate.  *  The most important chattel real is an estate for years in land, which is considered a chattel because it lacks the indefiniteness of time essential to real property. — aka real chattel. [2]

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[1]:  Ballantine’s Law Dictionary Legal Assistant Edition
by Jack Ballantine (James Arthur 1871-1949).  Doctored by Jack G. Handler, J.D. © 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.  ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.

[2]: Black’s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4

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