All 8 Uses of
chattel
in
The Canterbury Tales
- *fitted
For chattels hadde they enough and rent,
And eke their wives would it well assent:
And elles certain they had been to blame.†Chpt 1.0 *chattels = things that are tangible and owned
- His tithes payed he full fair and well,
Both of his *proper swink*, and his chattel** *his own labour* **goods
In a tabard* he rode upon a mare.†Chpt 1.0chattel = owned property
- The parson of the town, for she was fair,
In purpose was to make of her his heir
Both of his chattels and his messuage,
And *strange he made it* of her marriage.†Chpt 1.3chattels = things that are tangible and owned
- For loss of chattels may recover'd be,
But loss of time shendeth* us, quoth he.†Chpt 2.5
- Senec, among his other wordes wise,
Saith, that a man ought him right well advise,* *consider
To whom he gives his hand or his chattel.†Chpt 4.10chattel = owned property
- * *forbid gambling*
Hazard is very mother of leasings,* *lies
And of deceit, and cursed forswearings:
Blasphem' of Christ, manslaughter, and waste also
Of chattel* and of time; and furthermo' *property
It is repreve,* and contrar' of honour, *reproach
For to be held a common hazardour.†Chpt 6.14
- This widow, of which I telle you my tale,
Since thilke day that she was last a wife,
In patience led a full simple life,
For little was *her chattel and her rent.†Chpt 7.20
- Then is discipline eke in knocking of thy breast, in scourging with yards [rods], in kneelings, in tribulations, in suffering patiently wrongs that be done to him, and eke in patient sufferance of maladies, or losing of worldly catel [chattels], or of wife, or of child, or of other friends.†
Chpt 10.24chattels = things that are tangible and owned
Definition:
owned property (in law, tangible property other than real estate)