goods and chattels
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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“When a beloved parent dies, what is being parcelled out may look like goods and chattels, but it feels a lot like love,” she wrote.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Formerly the goods and chattels, but not the land, of a felo de se were forfeited to the crown, but such forfeitures were abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
My cousin, seeing that all was right, had just written to his wife that she might bring their goods and chattels with her.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Alexandre Chatrian
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