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chattel

[ chat-l ]

noun

  1. Law. Often chattels. a movable article of personal property.
  2. Often chattels. any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and other things annexed to land.
  3. a human being considered to be property; an enslaved person.


chattel

/ ˈtʃætəl /

noun

  1. often plural property law
    1. an item of movable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc
    2. an interest in land less than a freehold, such as a lease
  2. goods and chattels
    personal property
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chattel1

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English chatel, from Old French; cattle
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chattel1

C13: from Old French chatel personal property, from Medieval Latin capitāle wealth; see capital 1
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Example Sentences

Cornyn interjected the same interpretation led to the Dred Scott decision, citing “treating slaves as chattel property” as an another outcome of the expansive intrepretation of the due process clause.

Maybe no one will be the “husband” (as in, animal husbandry) and no one the chattel.

Until 1865—less than 150 years ago—it was legal under the United States Constitution to own black people as chattel.

Likely because of his own faith, Carter tries—and fails—to excuse the biblical mandate for reducing women to chattel.

Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation.

Men, women, and children are stripped naked and inspected like chattel, and later, lynched with impunity.

The statutes require that chattel mortgages should be acknowledged and recorded.

The discharge and foreclosure of mortgages on vessels are governed for the most part by the rules that apply to chattel mortgages.

Their form remains just what it was when woman was esteemed a pretty, desirable, and incidentally a child-producing, chattel.

He was in th' chattel morgedge business on week days an' he was a Spiritulist on Sunday.

I should say the same of a slave; he is a chattel owned by me; he is saved for my advantage, therefore I am indebted for him.

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