I divide my time between London and the US, and travel like a packhorse, toting several suitcases containing clothes, accessories, books, CDs, DVDs and the odd household chattel from one residence to another.
Free decision-making is impossible in a society where every move is monitored, as a moment's consideration of the state of North Korea will show, as would any conversation with those who lived through 20th-century totalitarianisms, or any historical study of the daily realities of American chattel slavery before our civil war.
"At the moment, a dog is treated as a chattel in law, like a laptop or mobile phone, so the sentencing isn't taken seriously.
The Egyptians have also intensified controls on road traffic, making it harder to shunt around truckloads of human chattel.
Counting the cost of forced labourTHE idea of treating other humans like chattel seems as antiquated as it is barbaric.
Abolition of involuntary servitude to say nothing of chattel slavery, was clearly a moral imperative.
There, her passport and identity papers are stolen, and she is sold, more or less as chattel, to brothel owners many of them based in Germany, the chief destination for trafficked women for a few thousand dollars.
If they fail, they face being hauled back to jail.Desperate convicts have had no option but to rush their last chattel to auction.
In the early modern period, security devices similar to mortgages of land were used with personal property, particularly by merchants, and in the 19th century use of this so-called "chattel mortgage" was common throughout the Anglo-American world.
Because the chattel mortgage was typically a device used by merchants, rather than ordinary citizens, there were, until quite recently, fewer protections for the debtor in such transactions (typically, for example, there was no statutory right to redeem).
