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• n  personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

• For him the crime of the South was chattel slavery, and the white man's denial of the Negro's equal humanity was an ineradicable curse on the land and its people.
• Men began to define land and animals as property and sources of prestige, it would seem, and women as chattel to be fought over.
• She had been the chattel of French monarchs.

• personal chattel
• movable

News & Articles

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• Love and Marriage is Relatively New
  As with all social institutions, marriage has evolved. Fortunately for women, we are no longer legally considered our husband’s property. There was a time when a bride’s property became her husband’s on the day of their marriage. She lost any legal rights she possessed and was referred to as chattel (the word root is cattle) meaning she no longer was a person in her own right but the possession ...
  June 22, 2013 - Grand Rapids Herald-Review

Quotes

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• President Bush in FOXNews
  It will help us dismantle an industry that has sprung up that uses human beings as product, as chattel,Bush said.
• Rex Warner in Independent
  Owners are very green. They pay for services on weight and volume and size so are very conscious of how they live,says Mr Warner. "But in the end a boat is not a house. It's not an investment, it's a chattel and that means it tends to...
• Keith Ellison in Minneapolis Star Tribune
  It's a huge thing,Ellison said Tuesday morning on Minnesota Public Radio. "Our country is a country that for two-and-a-half centuries had Africans as chattel slavery and a century after that had Jim Crow. ...... America as a country keeps...