CHATTEL Definition & Meaning

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chattel

[ chat-l ]

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noun

Law. Often chattels. a movable article of personal property.
Often chattels. any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and other things annexed to land.
a human being considered to be property; an enslaved person.

chattel

/ ˈ��ʃæ��ə�� /

noun

often plural property law
1. an item of movable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc
2. an interest in land less than a freehold, such as a lease
goods and chattels
personal property

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Origin of chattel¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English chatel, from Old French; cattle

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of chattel¹

C13: from Old French chatel personal property, from Medieval Latin ��辱�� wealth; see capital ¹

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Synonym Study

See property.

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Around 43% of mobile homes are secured with personal property loans, or “chattel” loans, in which the only collateral used against the loan is the asset itself.

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White Christian Nationalism supported White-on-Black chattel slavery and saw it as part of the “civilizing” mission for Christians.

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Wade is just the beginning of the right-wing’s plans to make women second-class citizens and a type of chattel and the property of their husbands, fathers and the other men in their lives.

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The draft communique says a majority of member states “share common historical experiences in relation to this abhorrent trade, chattel enslavement, the debilitation and dispossession of indigenous people”.

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In addition to the count for injunctive relief — which was filed against all the defendants — counts of conversion, trespass to chattel and battery were filed against Belanski.

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