Synonyms:
chattel, personal_chattel, movable
Meaning: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Usage examples
Only by a slow process did chattel slavery take firm root and become recognized as the leading source of the labor supply.
To the North, the proportion of slaves steadily diminished although chattel servitude was on the same legal footing as in the South.
Domestic slavery, where wife or child serves the father of the family, or chattel slavery, where the vanquished toils for the victor, are all but universal in early communities.