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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..

Bonus :: 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..

Charter :: Charter (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption..

Affreighter :: Affreighter (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

Sunny :: Sunnud (n.) A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift..

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..

Recharter :: Recharter (v. t.) To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.

Charterer :: Charterer (n.) One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.

Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause..

Charterhouse :: Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

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.

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

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..

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

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

Prisage :: 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..

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

Charta :: Charta (n.) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

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

Team :: 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..

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