Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
1The slave being considered a personal chattel may be sold or pledged, or leased at the will of his master.
2It makes all the Christian Science Church Readers on the globe the personal chattels of Mrs. Eddy.
3To transmit personal chattels to successors in a certain line; and so far, is against the laws of Distribution.
4The king claims his subjects as personal chattels, with whose bodies and minds he had a right to do as he pleased.
5"They are the personal chattels of one man," he said, "a single individual whom they are ashamed of.
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