chattels

Example Sentences

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While WhatsApp alleges trespass to chattels, Apple alleges unjust enrichment based upon defendants’ granting third-parties access to Apple’s server without compensating Apple for its costs to investigate and remediate the breaches.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2021

Among the chattels were two desks, one his, one hers, extras from a summer house they let go.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2019

In his will, George Washington offered freedom to his own human chattels upon the death of his wife, Martha.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Players in those days were essentially sporting chattels: disempowered, desperate to keep working, part of a culture that lingered on doggedly in English football.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2016

The three surviving fiery fingers had not been sold yet, but they were chattels of the Lord of Light and could count on being bought back by some red temple.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin