noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
goods and chattels
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Goods and chattels and art and inventions.
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However, the Act abolished detinue, which was wrongful retention of a chattel .
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In such cases the sheriff might be ordered to seize the chattels of defaulting regarders.
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The 12 cousins then decided that Violet should have £5,000, the testator's chattels and the freehold of the bungalow.
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The Bills of Sale Acts do not apply to documents accompanying transactions in which the possession of the chattels passes.
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The modern wife is considered more of an equal partner and helpmate than a chattel or a housekeeper.
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Woman is not the passive chattel that the tussles of despots, described in the last chapter, have implied.