chattel
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈʃætəl/
- Formal
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bien mueble
- No slavery in history has been as devastating as chattel slavery in the Americas.
- chattel property
- estates, goods, and chattels
- chattel slavery
And so he can then sign up for chattel slavery, lifetime servitude.
- And so he can then sign up for chattel slavery, lifetime servitude.
- And yet we're seen as chattel, as possessions had no rights.
- In the South, race came to be equated with enslaved labor and therefore chattel slavery.
- As civil war has raged for years, some warlords brought back literal chattel slavery of sub-saharan Africans.
- He said in the past that the Taliban has it right and that women are essentially chattel.
- Both were treated as chattel property whose status was inherited from mother to child.
- And people say, well, I love my pet, but the law sees a, a pet as chattel, as property like this, this water bottle.
- So Pavetta is what lawyers would call his chattel property until destiny intervened and our hearts collided.
Examples
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Both were treated as chattel property whose status was inherited from mother to child.
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Initially, married women were treated as chattel owned and controlled by their husbands.
Academic text (2003) -
In the South, race came to be equated with enslaved labor and therefore chattel slavery.
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Then it is my painful duty to inform you that all your late father's goods and chattels are hereby forfeit.
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In the auction, her old furniture was classified as chattel that could easily be moved to a new home.
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Under the law, livestock and farm equipment are considered chattel rather than real estate.
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The landlord informed the tenant that all chattel left behind would be removed after the lease ended.
Synonyms
68
2.8
Things you can move, like cars or jewelry, that belong to one person, not land
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3.1
Things a person owns that can be moved, like furniture or jewelry
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5.6
A thing you can move, like furniture or animals
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6.1
Things someone owns that can be moved, not land and buildings, like a car or jewelry
A thing you own that you can move, like furniture or a car
Things a person owns that can be moved, not land or buildings
Compounds
A loan in which the lender can take your property, like a car or machine, if you do not repay
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chattel comes from an old word for cattle, because animals were once a common kind of 'property you could move'. So today chattel means personal possessions such as furniture, animals, or vehicles rather than land.