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Chattel

Definition:

(n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

Example Sentences:

(1) Women to Philpott were slaves and sexual chattels, to be used for sex and to prove his virility by having his children.
(2) The judge added: "Canadian courts have moved away from the legal view that animals are merely chattels, to a recognition that they play an important role in the lives of their owners and that the loss of a pet has a significant emotional impact on its owner."
(3) She detailed his history of violence, abuse and controlling women, whom he treated as "chattels".
(4) Whether they provoke envy, indignation or aspiration, these unscientific attempts to put a pricetag on the chattels of the world's wealthiest heirs and tycoons can always be relied upon to cause a stir.
(5) Despite what Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio says, America is not “the first power in history motivated by a desire to expand freedom rather than its own territory.” But America was the first power in history to use chattel slavery to develop modern capitalism.
(6) When he did so, he surrendered the documentary chattels that accompany citizenship for most of us – a bank account, drivers’ licence, Medicare card, superannuation and a passport.
(7) When you treat women as chattels – when you mutilate them, abuse them, force them to marry early, lock them out of school or stop them entering the workforce – you fail to function as a society," said Malcolm Bruce, the committee chairman.
(8) But from European colonialism to American chattel slavery, the idea that race is an immutable characteristic is a social and historical construct – one that has real economic and mortal consequences which have already lasted for generations, but one that is a mass delusion all the same.
(9) Women were your chattels, there to look after you and your children (for that is how you describe them all).
(10) They had transmuted from being male chattels, said Veblen, to becoming lead players in driving conspicuous consumption.
(11) Black America is quite familiar with the complex fluidity of racial and ethnic identity within our families, because we live most directly with the legacy of four centuries of intergenerational chattel slavery in the United States.
(12) The father-only certificate is the irritating hangover of that long tradition of women-as-chattel.
(13) Under the old rules “chattels” had an archaic and arguably ambiguous definition, which included “carriages”, “linen” and “scientific instruments”.
(14) Under the new rules “chattels” are now defined as anything that is not monetary, business assets or “held as an investment”.
(15) Treated as chattel, many Yazidi women and girls are locked in homes to perform household tasks, and are denied adequate food and water.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling book The New Jim Crow, explains in the film how in the post-civil war south, petty offenses were used to recapture newly freed blacks and force them into free labor under convict lend-lease programs that functionally reconstituted chattel enslavement.
(17) Making a gift of an asset – which includes property, land, shares and "chattels" worth more than £6,000 such as antiques and valuable paintings – counts as a disposal for the purposes of capital gains tax in the same way that selling an asset does.
(18) However, as Jim pointed out, as men no longer own their wives, women are not part of men’s chattels, we now have autonomy, our own jobs and legal, independent lives, should we start questioning whether a woman automatically gives up her name.
(19) Earlier this year a senior Ikea executive warned that the appetite of western consumers to own ever more goods and chattels was probably waning.
(20) The definition of what is personal property or “chattels” also changes from 1 October.