charter

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v charter engage for service under a term of contract "We took an apartment on a quiet street","Let's rent a car","Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
  • v charter grant a charter to
  • v charter hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
  • n charter a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
  • n charter a contract to hire or lease transportation
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ON THE WARPATH AGAINST THE CHARTERED COMPANY

• Interesting fact: On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
• • Charter A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. "My mother,
    Who has a charter to extol her blood,
    When she does praise me, grieves me."
  • Charter A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
  • Charter 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 An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. "The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the “Great Charter ,” either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom."
  • Charter (Com) 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 To establish by charter.
  • Charter To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter n.
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• Interesting fact: The New York City Chamber of Commerce is the oldest chamber of commerce in the United States. King George III granted a royal charter for it in 1770.
• • n charter A written instrument, expressed in formal terms and formally executed, given as evidence of a grant, contract, etc.; any instrument, executed with form and solemuity, bestowing rights and privileges. In modern use the name is ordinarily applied only to government grants of powers or privileges of a permanent or continuous nature, such as incorporation, territorial dominion, or jurisdiction. As between private persons it is also loosely applied to deeds and instruments under seal for the conveyance of lands; a title-deed. Royal charters are such as are granted by sovereigns in conveying certain rights and privileges to their subjects, such as the Great Charter granted by King John (see Magna Charta, under charta), and charters granted by various sovereigns to boroughs and municipal bodies, to universities and colleges, or to colonies and foreign possessions; somewhat similar to which are charters granted by the state or legislature to banks and other companies or associations, etc. In Scots law a charter is the evidence of a grant of heritable property made under the feudal condition that the grantee shall annually pay a sum of money or perform certain services to the grantor, and it must be in the form of a written deed. The most common charters are feu charters. (See feu.) In American law a charter is a written grant from the sovereign power conferring rights or privileges upon a municipality or other corporation. The term is generally applied to the statute, letters patent, or articles of association sanctioned by statute, creating a corporation, as a city, college, stock-company, benevolent society, or social club.
  • n charter Privilege; immunity; exemption.
  • n charter In com.: The letting or hiring of a ship by special contract: as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. The limits or terms of such a contract. The written instrument embodying the terms of the contract.
  • n charter In Eng. politics, a sort of claim of rights, or document embodying the demands or principles of the Chartists. See Chartist.
  • charter To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See charterparty.
  • charter To establish by charter: as, to charter a bank.
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• • n Charter chärt′er any formal writing in evidence of a grant, contract, or other transaction, conferring or confirming titles, rights, or privileges, or the like: the formal deed by which a sovereign guarantees the rights and privileges of his subjects, like the famous Mag′na Chart′a, signed by King John at Runnymede, 15th June 1215, or the Charte of Louis XVIII. at the Restoration in 1814, or that sworn by Louis-Philippe, 29th August 1830: any instrument by which powers and privileges are conferred by the state on a select body of persons for a special object, as the 'charter of a bank:' a patent: grant, allowance: immunity
  • v.t Charter to establish by charter: to let or hire, as a ship, on contract
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• Walter Lippmann

  

  “No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
• Godfrey Bradman

  

  “I wake up every morning and thank God I?m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property.”
• Jean De La Bruyere

  

  “One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.”
• William Pitt

  

  “The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.”

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