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

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

The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya