Sample Sentences forchattel (editor-reviewed)
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In that culture, family members were legally dependent upon the oldest male, but they were not chattel.chattel = owned property
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When she was a slave, he was restrained from harming her because she was another's valuable chattel.chattel = property
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The proposed law applies to both chattels and intangible property.chattels = tangible owned items
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So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens. (source)chattels = owned property
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Before now they didn't kill you because you was somebody chattel. (source)chattel = property
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A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel.† (source)
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As far as everyone was concerned, as Moody's wife I was his chattel.† (source)
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Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!† (source)
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Then, after they siphoned off my money, my "feminist" parents let Nick bundle me off to Missouri like I was some piece of chattel, some mail-order bride, some property exchange.† (source)
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On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.† (source)
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Yet that intelligent, enterprising, noble-hearted man was a chattel!† (source)
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The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.† (source)
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Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers; under such circumstances immorality was exactly as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery.† (source)
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The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon his chattels.† (source)
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"Women are not chattel, to be traded off like cattle or hogs!" she'd thundered out.† (source)
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Peggotty and myself will constantly keep a double look-out together, on our goods and chattels.† (source)
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