alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇chattel
noun
1: an item of tangible movable or immovable property except real estate and things (such as buildings) connected with real property
These statutes do not apply to personal property; for chattels, an oral statement of donative intent plus delivery still suffices —William M. McGovern, Jr. et al.
—sometimes used as a mass noun
2: an enslaved person held as the legal property of another : bondman
He had struck down my personality, had subjected me to his will, made property of my body and soul, reduced me to a chattel … —Frederick Douglass