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How to pronounce chattel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms movable, personal chattel
Type of personal property, personalty, private property, personal estate

Examples of chattel

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In this sense, abortion and American chattel slavery could not be more opposite.
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Certainly they are better off than when they were impoverished starving chattel.
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Eventually, chattel slavery became the norm in regions dominated by plantations.
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Cricket fields abound, as do chattel houses, especially on the lesser roadways.
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Some were very brutal toward their slaves and others saw their slaves as chattel.
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At one time wives were treated as chattel and had no property rights of their own.
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In other words, Internet data moves over a network of privately owned chattel.
From the forbes.com
If the property is not affixed to real property it is considered chattel property.
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It's almost as if her womanhood was chattel he mislaid and is now reclaiming.
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More examples
  • Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
  • Tangible, movable property; A slave; Commonly used to describe the treatment of Russian serfs as property
  • (Chattels) Assets of a person other than land for example jewellery, ornaments, clothes, cars, animals, furniture and so on.
  • (Chattels) Any fixed asset other than freehold land. Items such as machinery, implements, tools, furnishings, fittings, which may be associated with land use, but which are not fixed to the land or premises or, if fixed, may be removed without causing any structural damage to the building. ...
  • (Chattels) Moveable possessions, personal property (generally items that may be removed without injury to the freehold estate).
  • (Chattels) Moveable and removable items of personal property. In real estate transactions, chattels included in the sale usually include the stove, television aerial, carpets, blinds, curtains, drapes and light fittings. ...
  • (Chattels) Property other than real estate, such as moveable possessions that may be included in a sale, e.g. furniture.
  • (Chattels) Personal belongings, including jewellery, furniture, wine, pictures, books and cars, but not money, investments, property or business assets.
  • (Chattels) personal possessions