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单词 chattel
释义
chattelchat‧tel /ˈtʃætl/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINchattel
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French chatel ‘property’, from Latin capitalis; CAPITAL2
Examples
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  • 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.
law old-fashioned a piece of personal property that you can move from one place to another:  a society in which women are considered to be chattels goods and chattels
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