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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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