CHATTEL


Meaning of CHATTEL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

goods and chattels

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Goods and chattels and art and inventions.

However, the Act abolished detinue, which was wrongful retention of a chattel .

In such cases the sheriff might be ordered to seize the chattels of defaulting regarders.

The 12 cousins then decided that Violet should have £5,000, the testator's chattels and the freehold of the bungalow.

The Bills of Sale Acts do not apply to documents accompanying transactions in which the possession of the chattels passes.

The modern wife is considered more of an equal partner and helpmate than a chattel or a housekeeper.

Woman is not the passive chattel that the tussles of despots, described in the last chapter, have implied.

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