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 EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS 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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