chattel
pronunciation
How to pronounce chattel in British English:
UK [ˈtʃætl]
How to pronounce chattel in American English:
US [ˈtʃætl]
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- Noun:
- personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Word Origin
- chattel
- chattel: see cattle
- chattel (n.)
- early 13c., chatel "property, goods," from Old French chatel "chattels, goods, wealth, possessions, property; profit; cattle," from Late Latin capitale "property" (see cattle, which is the Old North French form of the same word). Application to slaves (1640s) is a rhetorical figure of abolitionists, etc.
Example
- 1. Did the columbian exchange cause chattel slavery in the americas ?
- 2. Study of chattel mortgage registration system .
- 3. African chattel slavery would prove over the centuries to be the worst kind of curse for brazil .
- 4. Study on chattel mortgage publication and its validity .
- 5. Issystem of chattel mortgage irrational ?