GOODS. In Contracts. The term goods is not so wide as chattels, for it applies to in animate objects, and does not include an imals 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 ; 4 J. B. Moore 73; a subscription for stock ; Webb v. R. Co., 77 Md. 92, 26 Atl. 113, 39 Am. St. Rep. 396; or teams and wagons, notes and accounts due ; Van Patten v. Leonard, 55 Ia. 520, 8 N. W. 334. In a more limited sense, goods is used for articles of merchandise ; 2 Bla. Com. 389. It has been held in Massa chusetts that promissory notes were within the term goods in the Statute of Frauds; Baldwin v. Williams, 3 Mete. 365; but see Whittemore v. Gibbs, 24 N. H. 484; so stock or shares of an incorporated company ; Tis dale v. Harris, 20 Pick. (Mass.) 9 ; Colvin v. Williams, 3 H. & J. (Md.) 38, 5 Am. Dec. 417; North v. Forest, 15 •Conn. 400 ; so, in some cases, bank notes and coin; Citizens' Bank v. Steamboat Co., 2 Sto. 52, Fed. Cas.
No. 2,730; U. S. v. Moulton, 5 Mas. 537, Fed. Cas. No. 15,827; Rogers v. Morton, 12 Wend. (N. Y.) 486. The word "goods" is always used to designate wares, commodities, and personal chattels; the word effects is the equivalent of the word movables ; Appeal of Vandergrift, 83 Pa. 126.
In Wills. In wills goods is nomen gener alissimum, and, if there is nothing to limit it, will comprehend all the personal estate of the testator, as stocks, bonds, notes; inbti• ey, plate, furniture, etc.; 1 Atk. 180; 1 P. Wins. 267; 1 Bro. C. C. 128; 4 Russ. 370; Wins. Ex. 1014; 1 Rop. Leg. 250 ; but in general it will be limited by the context of the will ; see 2 Suppl. Ves. 287 ; 1 Ves. 63; Jackson v. Vanderspreigle's Ex'r, 2 Dail. (U. S.) 142, 1 L. Ed. 118 ; Sugd. Vend. 493. See 1 Jarm. Wills 751; and the titles BEMs ; CHATTELS ; FURNITURE.