Goods
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Goods
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Meaning of Goods
Its primary meaning is all chattels personal , capable of manual delivery , other than money. It has been said that goods include all chattels personal other than things in action and money. See Utica Carting Storage & Contracting Co. v World Fire & marine insurance Co., 100 N. Y.S.2d 941. Growing crops are goods within meaning of statute of frauds in the context of sale of goods for price of $500.00 or more. See Harris v Hine, 205 S. E.2d847, 232 Ga. 183. Statutory definitions may extend or restrict the meaning of the term, as e.g.. Fair labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. §203 which defines the term as follows: Goods means goods (including ships and marine equipment), wares , products, commodities, merchandise , or articles or subjects of commerce of any character , or any part or ingredient thereof, but does not include goods after their delivery into the actual physical possession of the ultimate consumer thereof other than a producer, manufacturer or processor thereof.
Goods Alternative Definition
The word goods, as a technical term of the law is nomen generalissimum,, and has a very extensive meaning. 35 N. H. 483. In Contracts. The term "goods" is not so wide as "chattels," for it applies to inanimate objects, and does not include animals or chattels real, as a lease for years of house or land, which "chattels" does include. Co. Litt. 118; 1 Russ. 376. Goods will not include fixtures. 2 Mass. 495; 4 J. B. Moore, 73. In a more limited sense, "goods" is used for articles of merchandise. 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 389. It has been held in Massachusetts that promissory notes were within the term "goods" in the statute of frauds (3 Mete. [Mass.] 365; but see 24 N. H. 484; 4 Dud. [S. C] 28); so stock or shares of an incorporated company (20 Pick. [Mass.] 9; 3 Har. & J. [Md.] 38; 15 Conn. 400); so, in some cases, bank notes and coin (2 Story [U. S.] 52; 5 Mason [U. S.] 537). See "Chattel." In Penal Statutes. In a strict sense, as the word is understood in penal statutes, it is limited to movables belonging to the property of some person, which have an intrinsic value, and does not include securities, which are not valuable in themselves, but merely represent value. 35 N. H. 483. In Wills. In wills, goods is nomen generalissimum, and, if there is nothing to limit it, will comprehend all the personal estate of the testator, as stocks, bonds, notes, money, plate, furniture, etc. 35 N. H. 483; 1 Atk. 180-182; 2 Atk. 62; 1 P. Wms. 267; 1 Brown, Ch. 128; 4 Russ. 370; Williams, Ex'rs, 1014; 1 Rop. Leg. 250. But in general it will be limited by the context of the will. See 2 Belt, Supp. Ves. 287; 1 Chit. Prac. 89, 90; 1 Ves. Jr. 63; 3 Ves. 212; Hammond, Parties, 182; 1 Yeates (Pa.) 101; 2 Dall. (Pa.) 142; Ayliffe, Pand. 296; Weskett, Ins. 260; Sugd. Vend. 493, 497; and the articles "Biens;" "Chattel"; "Furniture."
Synonyms of Goods
noun
appurtenances
articles of commerce
assets
belongings
chattels
commodities
consumer durables
durables
effects
items
materials
paraphernalia
personal estate
possessions
produce
products
property
resources
staples
stock
stock in trade
supplies
things for sale
vendibles
Associated Concepts: bulk sale
chattels
foreign goods
goods and chattels
goods sold and delivered
personalty
sale of goods
special goods
tangible goods
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Goods in the United States
Goods in Connecticut
means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. General Statutes of Connecticut (U.S.) § 42a-9-102(a)(44) (2011).
Goods in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of goods.
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English Legal System: Goods
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Goods:
Personal chattels or items of property. Land is excluded, and the statutory definition in the Sale of Goods Act 1979 also excludes *choses in action and money. It includes *emblements and things attached to or forming part of land that are agreed to be severed before sale or under a contract of sale.
Definition of Goods
In relation to social issues, a meaning of goods is provided here: objects that can be held or touched that can satisfy people’s wants.
Goods
What are Goods?
A definition of goods is: A term of variable content and meaning. It may include every species of personal property or it may be given a very restricted meaning. More details on the Encyclopedia.
More about the Concept of Goods
Items of merchandise, supplies, raw materials, or finished goods. Sometimes the meaning of "goods" is extended to include all tangible items, as in the phrase "goods and services. More details on the Encyclopedia."
Developments
All things (including specially manufactured goods) which are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money in which the price is to be paid, investment securities and things in action. More details on the Encyclopedia. Also includes the unborn of animals and growing crops and other identified things attached to realty as fixtures. United States Uniform Commercial Code § 2-105(1). More details on the Encyclopedia. All things treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation. United States Uniform Commercial Code § 7-102(1)(f). In context of U. C., includes used goods.
Details
As used with reference to secured transactions, goods include all things which are movable at the time the security interest attaches or which are fixtures, but does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like (including oil and gas) before extraction. More details on the Encyclopedia. "Goods" also includes standing timber which is to be cut and removed under a conveyance or contract for sale, the unborn young of animals, and growing crops. United States Uniform Commercial Code § 9-105(h).[1]
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Notes
"Goods" in the White America Dictionary (New York, Los Angeles, London, New Delhy, Hong Kong, 1989)
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