(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.
Serf
Definition:
(v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is bad news for aggregators whose digital serfs cut, paste, compile and mangle abstracts of news stories that real media outlets produce at great expense.
(2) His moment of fame is over and he vanishes into the shadowlands of Britain's serf-labour force.
(3) The Pavlovs, a highly achievement-oriented family descending from a lowly serf, improved their social status by serving the Russian Orthodox Church.
(4) They desired, rather, that it be lived on a higher level than that of a serf, treated as an inconvenience by a moribund oligarchy.
(5) It is the centenary of President Lincoln's inauguration, and of the beginning of the Civil War which ended with the liberation of the American slaves; it is also the centenary of the decree that emancipated the Russian serfs.
(6) At their best, blogs such as Nightjack, or the Civil Serf who revealed life in a Whitehall office before also being exposed, made the public services more open, and improved debate about how they should run.
(7) It is "simply disgusting at a time when people are struggling to heat their homes, these energy barons are treating them like serfs, and the government and the regulator are letting them get away with it," he said.
(8) So, he put his best serfs on it and came up with a birth certificate naming his father, Fred.
(9) The oldest is a 64-year-old who fled civil war only to find herself virtually imprisoned in the UK as an unpaid domestic serf.
(10) This threat is used to justify the absence of a constitution, the destruction of the judicial system, and the implementation of indefinite national service that allows the government to treat each civilian as a modern-day serf for their whole life.
(11) As always, the rich and powerful want to know all they can about us – "the serfs and slaves" as Assange called us – while letting us know as little as possible about them.
(12) The situation in the UK (as in Italy) continues to be insupportable, yet somewhat like "serfs", we've seemed resigned to suffering it, as if no serious alternative existed.
(13) In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law which introduced some protections for these imported serfs, under what has become known as the guest-worker program.
(14) Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour.
(15) Thirty per cent are labourers, labour tenants, and squatters on white farms and work and live under conditions similar to those of the serfs of the middle ages.
(16) A case could be made that the unhappy family of the opening is the Russian aristocracy in the 1870s, trying to hold the line against excessive change after the grant of freedom to millions of human beings it had owned as slaves, the peasant serfs, in 1861.
(17) But all the baggage of that word (unelected, concentrated power keeping serfs in chains) has no meaning at all applied to Christine Blower, the elected representative of working people whose decisions she can argue for or against but must always reflect.
(18) "Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings not down to serfs and slaves.
(19) That was Charles – impatient, controlling but also thoughtful towards his serfs.
(20) Back then Wimbledon felt like – in fact prided itself on being – a leftover from some ancien regime, with the players toiling and serfing on the lawns of a feudal estate.