123 C H A 
the department of the Marne, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Epernay : nine miles weft-north- 
weft of Epernay. 
CHATILLON'deMICHAIL'LE, a town of France, in 
the department of the Ain, and chief place of a canton, in 
the dift nidi of Nantua: two leagues and a halfeaft.of Nan tua. 
CHATILLON sur SAONE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridt of La Marche: three leagues fouth-fouth- 
eall of La Marche. 
CHATILLON sur SEINE, a town of France, and 
principal place of a diftrift, in the department of the 
Cote-d’Or. The town is large, though only one parifh, 
and is built on both fides of the Seine. There are fome iron 
forges in the neighbourhood: thirty-eight miles north- 
north-weft of Dijon, and twenty-four eaft of Tonnere. 
CHATILLON' sur SE'VRE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Two Sevres, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Chatillon : twelve leagues north of 
Niort, and feven weft of Thouars. 
CHATILLON'enVEN'DELAIS, a town of France, in 
the department of the Hie and Vilaine, and chief placeof a 
canton, in the diftrift of Vitre: two leagues north of Vitre. 
CHATONNAY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Here, and chief placeof a canton, in the diftridt of 
Vienne: five leagues eaft of Vienne, and feven and ahalf 
tbuth-eaft of Lyons. 
CHATOYA'NT, adj. a term applied by the French, to 
denote that aftedtion of femi-tranlparent ftones by which 
their colours vary according to the pofition of the eye of 
the obferver. We have not a correfpondent Englifh 
word; for which realbn the French term is adopted by 
our modern writers on mineralogy. 
CHA'TRE (La), a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftridt, in the department of the Indre. Here 
js a woollen manufacture, and the inhabitants carry on a 
large trade in cattle; it has two churches : fix leagues 
jbuth-fouth-eaft of Chateauroux, and feven and a half 
fouth of Ifloudun. Lat.46. 35. N. Ion. 19. 39. E. Ferro. 
CHA'TTEL, f Any moveable pofleflion: 
Nay, look not big, nor ftamp, nor flare, nor fret; 
I will be mafter of what is mine own; 
She is my goods, my chattels. Shakefpeare. 
CHAT'TELS, \catdlla, Lat.] Inlaw, all goods mo¬ 
veable and immoveable, except fuch as are in nature of 
freehold, or parcel of it. The Normans call moveable 
goods only, chattels : but this word by the common law 
extends to all moveable and immoveable goods : and the 
civilians denominate not only what we call-chattels, but 
alio land, bona. But no eftate of inheritance or freehold 
can be termed in our law, goods and chattels ; though a 
leafe for years may pafs as goods. Chattels are either 
perfonal or real: perfonal, as gold, filver, plate, jewels, 
houfhold fluff, goods and wares in a (hop,corn fown on the 
ground, carts, ploughs, coaches, fiddles, See. Cattle, &c. 
as horfes, oxen, kine, bullocks, flieep, pigs, and all tame 
fowls and birds, fwans, turkeys, geefe, poultry, &c. and 
thefeare called perfonal in tw o relpedts, one becaufethey 
belong immediately to the perfon of a man; and the other, 
for that being any way injuriously with-held from us, we 
have no means to recover them but by perfonal adtion. 
Chattels-real, faith Coke, 1 Inft. 118. are fuch as con¬ 
cern or favour of the realty ; as terms for years of land, 
the next prefentation to a church, eftates by a ftatute 
merchant, ftatute-ftaple, elegit, or the like. And thele 
are called real chattels, as being interefts ifiuing out of, 
or annexed to, real eftates; of which they have one qua¬ 
lity, viz. immobility, which denominates them real; 
but want the other, viz. a fufiicient, legal, indetermi¬ 
nate, duration; and this want it is that conftitutes them 
chattels. The utmoll period for which they can laft, is 
fixed and determinate, either for fuch a ipace of time 
certain, or till fuch a particular fum of money be railed 
out of fuch a particular income; fo that they are not 
equal in the eye of the law to the lowelt eftate of free- 
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hold, a leale for another’s life. 2 Comm. 386. Butdeeds 
relating to a freehold, obligations, &c. which are things 
in adlion, are not reckoned under goods and chattels; 
though, if writings are pawned, they may be chattels: 
and money hath been accounted not to be goods or chat¬ 
tels; nor are haw'ks or hounds, fuch being ferte naturae. 
8 Rep. 33. Terms de Ley 103. A collar of SS. garter of 
gold, buttons, See. belonging to the drefs of a knight of 
the garter, are not jewels to pafs by that name in per¬ 
fonal eftate, but enfigns of honour. Dyer 59. 
Chattels perfonal are, immediately upon the death of 
the teftator, in the adtual pofleflion of the executor, as 
the law will adjudge, though they are at never fo great a 
diftance from him; chattels real, as leafes for years of 
houfes, lands, &c. are not in the polTelfion of the execu¬ 
tor till he makes an entry, or hath recovered the fame; 
except in cafe of a leafe for years of tithes, where no en¬ 
try can be made. 1 Nelf. Abr. 437- Leafes for years, 
though for a thoufand years, leafes at will, eftates of te¬ 
nants by elegit, See. are chattels, and lhall go to the ex¬ 
ecutor: all obligations, bills, ftatutes, recognifances, 
and judgments, fhall be as a chattel in the executors, 
&c. Bro. Obi. 181. But if one be feifed of land in fee on 
which trees and grafs grow, the heir fhall have thefe, and 
not the executor; for they are not chattels till they are 
cut and fevered, but parcel of the inheritance. 4 Rep. 63. 
Dyer 273. The game of a park with the park, fifti in 
the pond, and doves in the houfe with the houfe, go to 
the heir, &c. and are not chattels: though if pigeons, or 
deer, are fame, or kept alive in a room; or if fi(h be in 
a trunk, &c. they go to the executors as chattels. Noy 
124. 11 Rep. 50. Keilw. 88. An owner of chattels is 
faid to be pojj'ejfed of them; as of freehold the term is, 
that a perfon is feifed of the fame. 
To CHAT'TER, <u. n. [caqueter, Fr.] To make a noife 
as a pie, or other unharmonious bird.—Nightingales fel- 
dom fing, the pie ftill ebattereth. Sidney. 
So doth the cuckoo, when the mavis fings, 
Begin his witlefs note apace to chatter. Spenfer. 
To make a noife by collifioti of the teeth : 
Dip but your toes into cold water, 
Their correfpondent teeth will chatter. Prior. 
To talk idly or carelefly.—Suffer no hour to pafs away in 
a lazy idlenefs, an impertinent chattering, or ufelefs tri¬ 
fles. Watts. 
CHAT'PER, f Idle prate.—Noife like that of a pie 
or monkey: 
The mimic ape began his chatter. 
How evil tongues his life.befpatter. Swift. 
CHAT'TERER, f An idle talker; a prattler. 
CHAT'TERER, in ornithology. See Ampelis. 
CHATTERPOUR', atown of Hindooftan, in the coun¬ 
try of Alla-Habad : 158 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Agra, 
and 120 eaft-louth-eaft of Alla-Habad. 
CHAT'TERTON (Thomas), a very Angular writer, 
and one to whom M. Baillet would certainly have given 
a place among his “ enfans celebres,” was born at Briftol 
November 20, 1752 ; and educated at a charity-fchool on 
St. Auguftin’s Back, where nothing more was taught 
than reading, writing, and accounts. At fourteen years 
of age, he was articled clerk to an attorney at Briftol, 
with whom he continued about three years; yet, though 
his education was thus confined, he difeovered an early 
turn towards poetry and Britifh antiquities, and particu¬ 
larly towards heraldry. How foon he began to be an au¬ 
thor is not known. In the Town and Country Magazine 
for March 1769 are two letters, probably from him, as 
they are dated from Briftol, and fubferibed with his ufual 
fignature, D. B. that is, Dunhelmus Briftolienfis. The 
former contains fliort extracts from two MSS. “ written 
300 years ago by one Rowley a monk,” concerning drefs 
in the age of Henry II. the latter Ethelgar, a Saxon poem, 
in bombaft profe. In the fame magazine for May 1760, 
are 
