movables
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Normally the capital receives about 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected, and already 10,000 tourists are trooping through the White House every day, eyeing the movables.
From Time Magazine Archive
All systems of law make a marked distinction for certain purposes, between immovables and movables, between real and personal property, between land and all other things.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
The movables on any ground are houses, trees, and any vegetables planted.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
It is just as unsafe to switch caboose cars in which train crews are resting or cars loaded with horses and cattle or emigrant movables in that way, and it ought to be stopped.
From Railroad Accidents Their Cause and Prevention by R. C. Richards
They confiscated the property, claiming the movables for the Church and the inquisitor, and the realty for the fisc.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
