Definition of "chattels" [chattels]

• Plural form of chattel. (noun)

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• "We repeat it, -- public opinion made them slaves, and keeps them slaves; in other words, it sunk them from men to chattels, and now, forsooth, this same public opinion will see to it, that these _chattels_ are treated like _men!"
• "I did not appear but through this agent I forced the foreclosure, and but few days (no more, believe me, than the law allowed) were given John Claverhouse to remove his goods and chattels from the premises."
• "It has been proposed that all data crimes could be dealth with as trespass to chattels, where the chattels is the server hardware."