household possessions

Federal authorities say they have been cracking down, sending dozens of investigators out earlier this year “to address the significant uptick in complaints of movers holding household possessions hostage to extort exorbitant additional charges from consumers.”

Surely you can tell the relatives that your granddaughter can’t use household possessions now.

One man, who refused to give his name, said Armenians were carting off everything they could as trucks nearby loaded up with household possessions.

Trucks full of household possessions jostled with heavily-laden cars and trucks to make their way to Armenia.

Under English law, it was difficult to claim compensation for the loss of chattel property, since rights to movable things – such as household possessions, or tools, or livestock – were considered inherently unstable, expendable and ambiguous.