Sentence examples for chattels from inspiring English sources
The word "chattels" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to personal property that is movable. Example: "The estate included various chattels such as furniture, artwork, and vehicles." Alternatives include "personal property" or "movable goods."
But the Sowetan insists that its report was accurate; the South African Broadcasting Corporation appeared to confirm that its boss was indeed offered a wife.Under some traditions in South Africa, women are still treated as chattels.
The high-crowned travellers of modern Christmas cards plod across the dunes unburdened and unescorted; but medieval people knew that when kings travelled, ever on the move between their palaces as sport, work or blocked drains dictated, they took their chattels, treasure, beds, dogs and all their servants with them.
His chattels, including a fancy home in Johannesburg, have been auctioned off by the taxman.The EFF a self-described "radical economic emancipation movement"—has pledged to nationalise mines and expropriate land without compensation.
"The unknowability of their past", she writes, "is one of the many terrible by-products of slavery, when people, reduced to chattels, are written out of history".Constructing a personal narrative without letters and diaries is a challenge.
Partly, this was for the happy reason that freed slaves were deemed to be human beings, not chattels.
And firms need to stop regarding workers as chattels.
Chattels were more freely alienable.
But neither in the case of land nor in that of chattels is it required that the transfer to the transferee be for value.
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.
