chattel

How To Use chattel In A Sentence

• Swindon residents who have been burgled could be reunited with their chattels thanks to the Wiltshire Police.
• What is inacceptable is government controlling women as if they are chattel, and not allowing them to have complete control of their bodies. Think Progress » Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft.
• A devisor may clearly devise or limit the possession of chattels, making them inalienable by devisees in succession. The Eustace Diamonds
• In case both parties agree to let the alienator continuously possess the chattel when the real right of a chattel is alienated, the real right shall go into effect upon the effectiveness of the agreement.
• There was confusion, and gloom and sorrow, and curiosity among the domestics, while the retainers of the law went from place to place, making an inventory of the goods and chattels falling under their warrant of distress, or poinding, as it is called in the law of Scotland. The Antiquary
• I pitied them both, so young and so publicly displayed, the wealth of two folks offered to one another as chattel for an alliance. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
• Acquisition and immediacy are highly important in our everyday comings and goings as chattels and goods have become status symbols and brands have developed to be instantly recognisable.
• This removed land in intestate estates from the repercussions of primogeniture and stipulated a division along the same lines as chattels: one-third to the widow for her lifetime, ultimately to devolve to the children of the marriage; two-thirds equally divided among the children. Gutenber-e Help Page
• Becket submitted so far to the sentence of confiscation of goods and chattels, that he gave surety, which is a proof that he meant not at that time to question the authority of the king's courts. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
• Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.