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The term movable property is primarily used in places with legal systems based on civil law, as is the case in continental Europe, most of Latin America, and many countries in Africa and Asia. The analogous term in countries with legal systems based on British common law, such as Great Britain and the United States, is personal property, also sometimes referred to as personalty or chattels. These jurisdictions also sometimes use the term movable property, however. (WiseGEEK)

Roman law, the law of ancient Rome from the time of the founding of the city in 753 bce until the fall of the Western Empire in the 5th century ce. It remained in use in the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire until 1453. As a legal system, Roman law has affected the development of law in most of Western civilization as well as in parts of the East. It forms the basis for the law codes of most countries of continental Europe and derivative systems elsewhere. (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Sick pay is the continued, time limited, payment of (part of) the worker’s salary by the employer during a period of sickness. A sickness benefit is provided by the social protection system and is paid as a fixed rate of previous earnings, or a flat-rate amount. All European Union (EU) Member States provide sick leave and sickness benefits. In most of them, salaried and waged employees may also — by law, collective agreement or at the discretion of the employer — be entitled to sick pay, either for an initial shorter period of absence or for the entire duration of sick leave. (Publications Office of the European Union)

It would seem that it was the intention of the Dickinson draft to create a permanent executive body which could do most of the executive work of a centralized government. (The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781 by Merrill Jensen)