Definition of "chattel"

[…] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.

1990, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, Corgi, page 387

Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!

1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 1 - Many Meetings]