Definitions for chattels

chattels chat·tel

Spelling: [chat-l]
IPA: /ˈtʃæt l/

Chattels is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in chattels (acehlstt).

Definitions for chattels

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 chattels

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

Examples for chattels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for chattels
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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