Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
1 The slave being considered a personal chattel may be sold or pledged, or leased at the will of his master.
2 It makes all the Christian Science Church Readers on the globe the personal chattels of Mrs. Eddy.
3 To transmit personal chattels to successors in a certain line; and so far, is against the laws of Distribution.
4 The 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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