chattels

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Charter Chattels Our predilection for object ownership may be a uniquely human trait.

From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2011

One was of a Roving Disposition, and no sooner had he settled Down to Live in One Place than he would Gather Up all his Goods and Chattels and Move to another Place.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Chattels die; kinsmen pass away; one dies oneself; but I know something that never dies—the name of the man, for good or bad.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio

Chattels personal are such things as belong immediately to the person of the owner, and for which, if they are injuriously withheld from him, he has no remedy other than by a personal action.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

Chattels of felons granted to bishop, 19, 45.

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway