CATALLA

In old English Law. Chattels. The word among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, “cattle,” but, in a secondary sense, the term was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or feud. Wharton. Catalla otiosa. Dead goods or chattels, as distinguished from animals. Idle cattle, that is, such as were not used for working, as distinguished from beasts of the plow; called also antmalia otiosa. Bract, fols. 217, 2176; 3 Bl. Comm. 9. Catalla Juste possessa amitti non pos sunt. Chattels justly possessed cannot be lost. Jenk. Cent. 28. Catalla reputantuv inter minima in lege. Chattels are considered in law among the least things. Jenk. Cent. 52.