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

From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2011

Take then the Wits, and all their useless Prattles; But as for Fools, they are our Goods and Chattels.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

In order to get a few worldly Chattels right at the jump, he sacrifices his Diploma.

From People You Know by Ade, George

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 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




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