Sentence examples for chattels and from inspiring English sources

In his book The Idea of Cultural Heritage, Derek Gillman unpicks the link most of us make between art and place, between "movable chattels" and "architectural fabric".

A postapocalyptic, hierarchical society that treats women as chattels, and gives free rein to cosplay machismo: that's a pretty good picture of the redpill utopia.

This is the India of grinding poverty, a victim of social exploitation of the worst kind, where the inhabitants – mainly tribals – are treated like chattels and domestic animals by the upper caste political leaders, landlords and forest contractors.

I still have many of Crystal's 100 words rattling in my head – fopdoodle, chattels and matrix – and was bewitched by Sebag Montefiore's account of Stalin's path from cobbler's son to revolutionary via poetry and a brutal seminary.

Although the Napoleonic Code provided for a statutory regime (if no particular marriage contract had been made), under which all chattels and earnings of the spouses would be community property to be shared equally between them or their heirs at the dissolution of the marriage, the husband was vested with all active powers, even over his wife's property.

It is concerned with the appropriation of chattels and when property in chattels passes.

The Sequestration Act of 1861 provided for confiscation of all Union "lands, tenements, goods and chattels, right and credits" and the transfer of debt obligation on the part of Confederate citizens from Northern creditors directly to the Confederate government.

It mandated that Confederate agents would locate "all and every lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, and chattels, rights and credits within these Confederate states and every right and interest therein held, owned, possessed or enjoyed by or for any alien enemy".

He is nothing more than chattel and hence, should be sold down the river.

It's not an investment, it's a chattel and that means it tends to depreciate and not appreciate.

The picture that emerges is one of convicts as chattel and a legal system essentially based on human commodification.