[f. next.] The action of chattelizing, or converting (human beings or real property) into a chattel.
1847. Green Mountain Freeman, 21 Jan., 4/2. To open on the sunny plains of Mexico a broad field for their system of human chattelization.
1888. Guardian, 29 Feb., 309/2. What is oddly enough described as the ‘chattelisation’ of the land … the custom sanctioned by modern society of treating land as an object which like other objects can be bought or sold, let and hired.
