chattel

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

movable personal chattel slav private property effect good property thing slave estate possession assets belonging furniture servant
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Antonyms

plenipotentiary debt assignment liability fatality prime minister
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Hypernyms

private property personalty personal property personal estate

Hyponyms

shirt

Related terms

capital cattle

Phrases with the word

chattel vessel

Anagrams

latchet

Examples

As Tibaut did not have the full purchase price, Ford held a $400 chattel mortgage on Northup. Source: Internet

Callahan argues that, beyond verse 16, "nothing in the text conclusively indicates that Onesimus was ever the chattel of the letter's chief addressee. Source: Internet

Chattel slavery Chattel slavery, also called traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities. Source: Internet

Following a series of rebellions on the island and changing attitudes in Great Britain, the British government formally abolished slavery by an 1833 act, beginning in 1834, with full emancipation from chattel slavery declared in 1838. Source: Internet

Helots did not have voting rights, although compared to non-Greek chattel slaves in other parts of Greece they were relatively privileged. Source: Internet

However, the "enfranchisement of the local laboring classes was succeeded by the development of chattel slavery, the enslavement of, in large part, foreigners." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

chatte d'espagne chatted chattee chattel house chattel mortgage chattel paper