Chattel sentence example

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  • He'd not just claimed her in deed but had the nerve to brand her like chattel as well!
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  • The slave was considered by pagans to be a mere chattel: a possession with no rights or liberties.
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  • In most parts of the world, women are no longer legally regarded as chattel.
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  • Some lenders offer chattel loans that can be used to purchase the home itself, but not land.
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  • It is at least as feeble as the case for chattel slavery.
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  • He is also condemning woman's traditional role as her husband's chattel, through Sieglinde's situation in her loveless marriage to Hunding.
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  • The chattel slave was becoming a predial serf, attached to the soil and owing his master certain fixed services and returns in kind.
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  • What an idiot I would be to make chattel slaves of them.
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  • The ardu was a slave, his master's chattel, and formed a very numerous class.
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