In English and American law property is divided into two kinds:
real or landed, and personal or chattels; in Continental law,
into immovable and movable. Jewish law speaks of "ḳarḳa'ot"
(ground) and "miṭṭalṭelin" (movables). Slaves are included in
the former; demands on other persons, in the latter, though in
many respects the law governing the ownership and incidents of
bonds ("sheṭarot") or other demands differs from the law of
tangible, bodily chattels, as has been shown in the article
Alienation. Lands and slaves are sometimes joined together under
the name of "property which has responsibility" ("sḥarayot"),
chattels, bond, and, other demands as property having none;
because, under the Talmudic law (see Deeds), a properly written
and attested bond became as soon as delivered a lien on all of
the debtor's lands, but not on his chattels and effects, and
because, moreover, after the death of the debtor, only lands and
slaves, not chattels or demands, were liable to his creditors.
During the Middle Ages, how