Examples of “chattel” in a Sentence

noun An item of movable personal property, such as furniture, livestock or a vehicle, as distinct from land and buildings.

• The lease covered the premises but not the chattels inside.
• Farm machinery is treated as a chattel for tax purposes.

noun A person treated as the outright property of another, especially an enslaved person.

• Chattel slavery reduced human beings to items on an inventory.
• Under the old law a wife's earnings were treated much as a chattel would be.