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- Charter - n. - A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
- Charter - n. - An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
- Charter - n. - An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
- Charter - n. - A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- Charter - n. - The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
- Charter - v. t. - To establish by charter.
- Charter - v. t. - To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
- Chartered - imp. & p. p. - of Charter
- Chartered - a. - Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
- Chartered - a. - Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
- Charterer - n. - One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
- Charterhouse - n. - A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
- Chartering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Charter
- Charterist - n. - Same as Chartist.
- Charter - n. - The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
- Royal - a. - Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society.
- Folkland - n. - Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
- Charta - n. - A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
- Chirograph - n. - A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.
- Bonus - n. - A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
- Recharter - v. t. - To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.
- Demurrage - n. - The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.
- Team - n. - A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
- Prisage - n. - A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.
- Sunnud - n. - A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift.
- Pancarte - n. - A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
- Magna Charta - - The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.