What is another word for chattels?

Pronunciation: [t͡ʃˈatə͡lz] (IPA)

Chattels are personal possessions or movable property that one owns. There are several synonyms for the word chattels, including personal property, movable assets, personal effects, belongings, and gear, among others. Personal property is the broadest term, encompassing any items someone can own, while movable assets refer to items that can be moved from one location to another. Personal effects and belongings refer to items that have sentimental or emotional value to an individual, such as family heirlooms. Gear is a more specific term referring to equipment, tools, or clothing used for a particular purpose. Knowing these synonyms for chattels can help individuals better understand legal documents and financial terminology.

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Usage examples for Chattels

Like the American negroes, the serfs were sold from master to master and treated like chattels; humanity was not a relative term between noble and serf.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Widow Louchard, I will be responsible for your chattels-don't bother us!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
Domptin, our neighboring village, one mile up the road, had caught the fever and was moving out wholesale, transporting its ill and decrepit, its children and chattels, in heaven knows how many baby carriages!
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard

Famous quotes with Chattels

  • The paradox of calling the same human beings persons and property brings the cause of the Civil War into the sharpest focus. A person by definition is a being possessed of a rational will. A chattel by equal definition is a piece of movable property without a rational will. Because a horse or a dog lacks a rational will, its owner is responsible for any damage or injury it may cause. But slaves were held as responsible for their own actions, as were their masters, under the criminal codes of the slave states. The slave owners, in seeking to have the slaves counted as five-fifths, were asserting that they were full human beings. At the same time, by claiming the right to their labor as chattels, they were asserting them to be sub-human. How the slaves could be both was something that Jefferson Davis and his friends never explained.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
    Edward Jenks
  • The Animals, you say, were "sent" For man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, Why came they aeons before Man did, To spend long centuries on earth, Awaiting their Devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from Heaven, Were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given— "Sent" for Man's usage (can Man believe it?) When there was no Man to receive it!
    Henry Stephens Salt
  • ..As Salmanezer and Nebuchadnezzar had formerly carried the Jews to Babylon, so now from all the frontier provinces of the new kingdom (of Armenia) - from Corduene, Adiabene, Assyria,Cilicia,Cappadocia - the inhabitants, especially the Greek or half-Greek citizens of the towns, were compelled to settle with their whole goods and chattels in the new capital, one of those gigantic cities proclaiming rather the nothingness of the people than the greatness of the rulers, which sprang up in the countries of the Euphrates on every change in the supreme sovereignty at the fiat of the new grant Sultan. the new 'city of Tigranes", Tigranocerta, situated in in the most southern province of Armenia, not far from the Mesopotamian frontier, was a city like Nineveh and Babylon, with walls fifty yards high, and the appendages of palace, garden and park that were appropriate to sultanism In other respects, too, the new great king proved faithful to his part. As amidst the perpetual childhood of the East the childlike conceptions of kings with real crowns on their heads have never disappeared, Tigranes, when he showed himself in public, appeared in the state and costume of a successor of Darius and Xerxes, with the purple fagtan, the half white half-purple tunic, the long plaited trousers, the high turban, and the royal diadem - attended moreover and served in slavish fashion, wherever he went or stoood, by four "kings."
    Theodor Mommsen

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