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A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster.

A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.

articular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.

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. Bouvier.

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.

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

One who make charts or maps.

The act business of forming chart's or maps.

parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

sons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in…

a horizontal plane intersects a portion of ground, or the corresponding line in a map or chart.

terary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

ss in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.

widest or midship frame. -- Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. -- Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alie…

The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.

the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.