Present participle of chattelize; the process of converting something into personal property or treating it as a chattel.
From 'chattel' plus '-ize' suffix (to make or treat as) plus '-ing' for present participle. English word formation that describes an ongoing action of property conversion.
The fact that 'chattelizing' had to exist as a legal term reveals a dark truth: throughout history, people had to formally describe the crime of turning human beings into objects they could own and sell.
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