biens

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biens - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  BIENS. A French word, which signifies property. In law, it means property of 
  every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Dane's Ab. c. 
  133, a, 3 Com. Dig. h. t.; Co. Litt. 118, b; Sugd. Vend. 495. 
       2. In the French law, this term includes all kinds of property, real 
  and personal. Biens are divided into biens meubles, movable or personal 
  property; and biens immeubles, immovable property or real estate. This 
  distinction between movable and immovable property, is, however, recognized 
  by them, and gives rise in the civil, as well as in the common law, to many 
  important distinctions as to rights and remedies. Story, Confl. of Laws, 
  Sec. 13, note 1.