chattels
Example Sentences
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For the first two decades, the firm specialised in managing probate house clearances, cessation of business asset disposals and private chattels.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
While WhatsApp alleges trespass to chattels, Apple alleges unjust enrichment based upon defendants’ granting third-parties access to Apple’s server without compensating Apple for its costs to investigate and remediate the breaches.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2021
Slave society also linked liberty to the power of command, for true freemen gave orders while chattels followed them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
My Pure Land is just the latest in a string of feminist new westerns – repurposing a form in which women were once silent chattels.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2017
Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
