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
In his will, George Washington offered freedom to his own human chattels upon the death of his wife, Martha.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He gives us, if only incidentally, the British high command's life-wasting incompetence in Norway, France and Crete, which reduced these men to chattels of the enemy.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2012
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
