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

Slave society also linked liberty to the power of command, for true freemen gave orders while chattels followed them.

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

Excluded in the sale but available for separate purchase were the household furniture, machinery and "the chattels within the house."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015

Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson