chattel

I want Bill to watch our chattels, as he did before.

Others concerned the use of lost chattels found by another.

In the common law systems personal property may also be called chattels.

He was trying to make a chattel of me and break my spirit.

The slave was a chattel with no rights of its own.

I'm not a chattel of yours, like your wife and son are.

"You mean to claim me as your sexual chattel then?"

The idea of animals as chattel or property goes back to common law.

She would end up as chattel to the man who had murdered her husband.

"But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were."

What was that cause but the defense of chattel slavery?

After all, he had prevailed, and the chattel was his.

"You speak of me as if I were a chattel.

I doubt that he'd have wanted his goods and chattels to go to the state.

The wife's personal chattels automatically became the property of her husband.

Twenty-five years you have used me for your tool and chattel.

Strangely I felt small and nothing beside the girl, only chattel.

Formerly, women were considered as the property or chattel of men.

Typically women had no rights, and were held legally as chattel.

Deadly force may never be used in the recovery of chattels.

"I could not let them treat you like chattel," she said.

People did not own each other in a civilized society; no one had the right to expect another to become any sort of chattel.

To be a captain's chattel was a steep step down from her present security.

It is uncertain whether they had chattel slaves as well.

He looked at the chattels himself, then peered into the shelter and went inside.