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Meanings of personal chattel in English

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Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

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Usage of personal chattel in English
1
The slave being considered a personal chattel may be sold or pledged, or leased at the will of his master.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
2
It makes all the Christian Science Church Readers on the globe the personal chattels of Mrs. Eddy.
Christian Science
3
To transmit personal chattels to successors in a certain line; and so far, is against the laws of Distribution.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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The king claims his subjects as personal chattels, with whose bodies and minds he had a right to do as he pleased.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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"They are the personal chattels of one man," he said, "a single individual whom they are ashamed of.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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