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Recharter :: Recharter (n.) A second charter; a renewal of a charter.

Charter :: Charter (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance..

Folkland :: 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..

Chartering :: Chartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charte.

Disfranchise :: Disfranchise (v. t.) To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc..

Law :: Law (n.) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community..

Ultra Vires :: Ultra vires () Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.

Fuero :: Fuero (n.) A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.

Chirograph :: 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..

Pancarte :: Pancarte (n.) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

Date :: Date (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter..

Chart :: Chart (n.) A written deed; a charter.

Magna Charta :: 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..

Hide :: Hide (n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres..

Chartered :: Chartered (imp. & p. p.) of Charte.

Disfranchisement :: Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities..

Chartism :: Chartism (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter..

Chartered :: Chartered (a.) Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter..

Chartered :: Chartered (a.) Hired or let by charter, as a ship..

Freighter :: Freighter (n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship..

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