Synonyms for chattels

Grammar : Noun

Spell : chat-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃæt l

Définition of chattels

Origin : early 13c., chatel "property, goods," from Old French chatel "chattels, goods, wealth, possessions, property; profit; cattle," from Late Latin capitale "property" (see cattle, which is the Old North French form of the same word). Application to slaves (1640s) is a rhetorical figure of abolitionists, etc.

noun property

Example sentences :

I would trust my wife, my children, my goods and chattels to him rather than to any one else.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

The incensed conductor of the train, after boxing his ears, evicted him with all his chattels.
Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro

There is the English law, which will preserve a man's goods and his chattels.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

"You should have lived at a time when women were chattels and men the masters of slaves," I said.
Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham

Minute descriptions of real property and chattels are given.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

It was intimated that payment should be made for the chattels in question, or that they should be restored.
Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook

No one could tell among which pile of chattels I should be flung.
Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass

Parnapishtim now proceeds to take his family and chattels on board.
Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow

A home, a dress, are symbols, or nothing but goods and chattels.
Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon

Gen. 47:23, Joseph bought the Egyptians; were they chattels?
Extract from : « Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? » by Isaac Allen

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