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s. 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. Hume.

Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak.

One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.

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

Same as Chartist.

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

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.

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 written deed; a charter. Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular. -- Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots. -- Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection. -- Plane chart, a representation of some part of the…

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

oral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

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…

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.