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

Royal :: Royal (a.) Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society..

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..

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

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

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..

Charter :: Charter (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges..

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.

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

Charterist :: Charterist (n.) Same as Chartist.

Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..

Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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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