chattel

nounproperty

Synonyms for chattel

noun property

Word Origin & History

early 13c., chatel "property, goods," from Old French chatel "chattels, goods, wealth, possessions, property; profit; cattle," from Late Latin capitale "property" (see cattle, which is the Old North French form of the same word). Application to slaves (1640s) is a rhetorical figure of abolitionists, etc.

Example Sentences for chattel

Your chattel is for growing corn, not for corn in a hog's belly.

All this while he had been led about as a creature without a will, a chattel, an instrument.

Ruth 4:10, "Ruth the Moabitess have I purchased this day to be my wife;" was she a chattel?

Here there is a manifest contradiction of the conditions of a chattel slave.

What, then, is chattel slavery as understood in American law?

Since the abolition of chattel slavery this has been indefeasible except for crime.

There must be an expenditure to secure the service of a chattel slave.

Slaves and their children after them were chattel property for life.

He is the guest, and not the chattel, of the family who discovered him.

She had sold herself; henceforth she was this man's slave and chattel.

chattel

Synonyms for chattel

commodities

commodity

furnishing

furniture

indentured servant

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Synonyms for chattel

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