Chattel
['tʃæt(ə)l] or ['tʃætl]
Definition
(noun.) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc).
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Definition
(n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
Editor: Lucia
Definition
n. any kind of property which is not freehold distinguished further into chattels-real and chattels-personal the latter being mere personal movables—money plate cattle and the like; the former including leasehold interests.—Goods and chattels all corporeal movables.
Typist: Ollie
Examples
- So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to wage slavery or the capitalism of to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Profound economic forces brought about the beginning of the end of chattel slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They are likely to regard the Emancipation Proclamation as the end of chattel slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is a matter of record that chattel slavery in this country was deduced from Biblical injunction, that the universities furnished brains for its defense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Is the absence of unlimited proprietary rights felt more strongly in the case of personal chattels (such as furniture and ornaments) than in the case of land or machinery? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The proprietor had left the town with all his goods and chattels, and where he had gone I could not positively ascertain from any one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The master and mariners, knowing this offence, forfeit all their goods and chattels, and suffer three months imprisonment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He likewise forfeits to the king all his lands, goods, and chattels; is declared an alien in every respect; and is put out of the king's protection. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Louis