Definitions for chattel

chattel chat·tel

Spelling: [chat-l]
IPA: /ˈtʃæt l/

Chattel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in chattel (acehltt).

Definitions for chattel

noun

  1. Law.. Often, chattels. a movable article of personal property.
  2. Often, chattels. any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and other things annexed to land.
  3. a slave.

Origin of chattel

1175-1225; Middle English chatel Old French. See cattle

Examples for chattel

Men, women, and children are stripped naked and inspected like chattel, and later, lynched with impunity.

Until 1865—less than 150 years ago—it was legal under the United States Constitution to own black people as chattel.

Likely because of his own faith, Carter tries—and fails—to excuse the biblical mandate for reducing women to chattel.

Your chattel is for growing corn, not for corn in a hog's belly.

Here there is a manifest contradiction of the conditions of a chattel slave.

Ruth 4:10, "Ruth the Moabitess have I purchased this day to be my wife;" was she a chattel?

Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation.

What, then, is chattel slavery as understood in American law?

Maybe no one will be the “husband” (as in, animal husbandry) and no one the chattel.

All this while he had been led about as a creature without a will, a chattel, an instrument.

Word Value for chattel
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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