movables

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Put all moveables and all cash and investments into a discretionary trust, and it passes to your heirs without tax as soon as you die, not even waiting for probate.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

The moveables of the saloon consist of chairs, stools, and tables; made sometimes of rosewood, ebony, or lacquered work, and sometimes of bamboo only, which is cheap, and, nevertheless, very neat.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

Accordingly they embarked as fast as they could with all their goods and moveables, merchandise, jewels, and money, and put off from the shore.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert

A strong deal table, two wooden-seated chairs, and a small easy couch, which had been removed from one of the bedrooms upstairs, were all the moveables which this room contained.

From The Phantom Ship by Marryat, Frederick

This was in 1539; it is not to be imagined that a knight of the shire a hundred years before would have rivalled even this scanty provision of moveables.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry