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What (who) is chattel - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Chattels; Chattel (disambiguation)
Chattel
·noun 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.
chattel
(chattels)
Chattels are things that belong to you. (OLD-FASHIONED)
They were slaves, to be bought and sold as chattels.
N-VAR
chattel
n. an item of personal property which is movable, as distin-guished from real property (land and improvements).
See also: personal property
Wikipedia
Chattel
Chattel may refer to:
- Chattel, an alternative name for tangible personal property
- A chattel house, a type of West Indian dwelling
- A chattel mortgage, a security interest over tangible personal property
- Chattel slavery, the most extreme form of slavery, in which the enslaved were treated as property
- The Chattel, a 1916 silent film
Examples of use of chattel
1. By 1750, nearly half the residents of the Old Dominion had no more rights than chattel.
2. Players went from being chattel to being celebrities, salaries followed, and interest in the game blossomed.
3. "If left unregulated," Limbaugh wrote, "these highly prized biological materials would become nothing more than chattel going to the highest bidder.
4. But the master could "recover nothing for the pain and agony of body and mind of the slave". That was not a test of "amount of damages proper to be allowed now". The negro was no longer a chattel or to be valued as a chattel, but was on the plane of a freeman and a citizen, and all distinctions on account of race or colour were abolished.
5. Human rights activists raise the issue of slavery to suggest that Arab raiders, supported by the government, are routinely abducting Africans from the south to use as human chattel.