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How to use chattel in a sentence

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The defence cannot be raised in the context of an action in trover, which is based on the misappropriation of a chattel.
They continued to be treated as chattel, to be bought and sold by fathers, brothers and husbands.
The pledge confers on the creditor a right to sell the chattel involved and to satisfy the debt from the proceeds.
An additional way in which the matter may have to be tested is against the case where the trust property is a chattel.
Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.
Women are regarded paradoxically as personal chattel as well as a source of honour and pride.
In that case a chattel mortgage was given to the bank by two principals of the bankrupt corporation.
The position is the same with a dangerous defect in a chattel which is discovered before it causes any personal injury or damage to property.
Hugessen J. also rejected the argument of ownership in the chattel, i.e. ownership in the documents copied.
But a lot of people just see them as a cash cow, as high-level chattel for exchange.
Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation.
Men, women, and children are stripped naked and inspected like chattel, and later, lynched with impunity.
The NCAA likes to scrutinize and monitor their chattel in the event that money flows their way from outside jobs.
The loans are secured by first rank mortgages on real estate properties and by chattel mortgages on all present and future movable properties.
They had stopped first at Mingan with their chattel but the Hudson Bay's agent had sent them back to sea.
The Egyptians have also intensified controls on road traffic, making it harder to shunt around truckloads of human chattel.
For nearly a century, Congress regulated slavery's existence and protected the property rights slaveholders claimed to have over their human chattel.
In the Middle Ages, marriage had often been a contractual, even commercial business, in which the bride was handed over like a chattel from father to husband.
Counting the cost of forced labourTHE idea of treating other humans like chattel seems as antiquated as it is barbaric.
Abolition of involuntary servitude to say nothing of chattel slavery, was clearly a moral imperative.
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As philanthropy has ridded us of chattel slavery, so philosophy must rid us of chattel sin and all its logical consequences.
An assignment of a chattel mortgage apart from the debt secured, passes no interest to the transferee.
Kwaque he merely accepted, as an appurtenance, as a part of the human landscape, as a chattel of Dag Daughtry.
Do you think I am a slave or a human chattel to be bartered away like that?
All this while he had been led about as a creature without a will, a chattel, an instrument.
Here there is a manifest contradiction of the conditions of a chattel slave.
Socially it rescued her from the priest to make her the chattel of the husband, and doctrinally it expunged her altogether.
Since the abolition of chattel slavery this has been indefeasible except for crime.
What, then, is chattel slavery as understood in American law?
Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society.
Your chattel is for growing corn, not for corn in a hog's belly.
But the sexagenarian human chattel was mercilessly scrutinized.
By giving a chattel mortgage on their growing wheat, they borrowed enough, at twenty per cent, to buy seed corn and a plow.
Didn't I tell you that no chattel of the Church, no bond-slave of pope or bishop can enter my Man-Factory?
The only difference between wage slavery and chattel slavery is that one is temporary.
Superimposed on the dress is a diagram of hellishly crowded billeting on a slave ship, demonstrating how to most efficiently transport chattel on a transatlantic voyage.
This same gentleman, having heard of the fame of George's invention, took a ride over to the factory, to see what this intelligent chattel had been about.
It is not a stretch to say the emancipation of African-Americans was merely the transplanting of chattel slavery from the cotton plantations to poor ghettos and prison blocks.
She was merely his chattel now, his convenience, his dog, his cringing and helpless slave, the humble and unresisting victim of his capricious temper and vicious nature.
They have purchased your slave judges, they have debauched your slave legislatures, and they have forced to worse horrors than chattel slavery your slave boys and girls.
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