chat some (chatsum)

[ ME. catel ), cattle, goods, property: see cattle and capital2.] 1. Property; wealth; goods; stock. See cattle, 1. Aiwher with chatel mon mai luue cheape [anywhere with wealth one may buy love]. Old Eng . Homilies (ed. Morris), p. 271. To dealen his feder [father's] chetel to neodfule. Ancren Riwle , p. 224. 2. An article of personal property; a movable: usually in the plural, goods; movable a ets. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0193.png:[blocks in formation] No wiser than their mothers, household stuff, Live chattels . Tennyson, Prince , iv. Are flesh and blood a ware? Are heart and soul a chattel ? Browning, Ring and Book, I. 215. Chattel mortgage, a transfer of chattels from one person, usually a debtor, to another, usually his creditor, on condition that it is to be void on the future payment of a sum of money, or in some other specified contingency, and that in the mean time, and usually also only until some default or danger intervenes, the transferror may retain the po e ion of the property. - Chattel personal, an article of tangible personal property, such as an animal, furniture, grain, etc., including evidences of debt. Chattels personal are usually spoken of simply as chattels, or tautologically as goods and chattels.- Chattel real, or chattel interest, an estate in land other than one for life or of inheritance, as a lease for years. - Chattel vegetable, a designation sometimes applied to trees when severed from the ground, to the fruit and produce of trees when severed from the body of the tree, and to emblements. Syn. Effects, Goods, etc. See property. chattel (chat'el or -1), v. t.; pret. and pp. chat teled or chattel led, ppr. chattel ing or chat telling. [ chattel ism (chat'el-izm or -l-izm), n. [ chattelize (chat'el-iz or -l-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. chattel i zed, ppr. chattel i zing. [ This system of chattel i zed humanity (negro slavery) rested upon that false relation of arbitrary power upon the one side, and dependence and helple ne on the other, which is the life of every form of oppre ion. N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 251.