A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the recipient admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern usage of the term.
The word entered the English language from the Old French charte, via Latin charta, and ultimately from Greek χάρτης (khartes, meaning "layer of papyrus"). It has come to be synonymous with a document that sets out a grant of rights or privileges.
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified...
Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to...
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public...
Look up chartering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chartering may refer to: Air charterChartering (shipping) Charter (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
In the United States, a charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than solely by general...
Hamas charter can refer to: 1988 Hamas charter - the founding charter of Hamas 2017 Hamas charter - revised charter of Hamas This disambiguation page...
Chartered may refer to: Charter, a legal document conferring rights or privileges University charterChartered company Chartered (professional), a professional...
Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunications and mass media company with services branded as Spectrum. With over 32 million customers...
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through...
Yacht chartering is the practice of renting, or chartering, a sailboat or motor yacht and travelling to various coastal or island destinations, for business...
A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located...
A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document (charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The...
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations. It establishes the purposes, governing structure, and overall...
Charter'97 (Belarusian: Хартыя'97; Russian: Хартия'97) is a declaration calling for democracy in Belarus and a pro-human rights online news outlet taking...
The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months...
chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or...
A bareboat charter, or demise charter, is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat for which no crew or provisions are included as...
Charter Arms Co. is an American manufacturer of revolvers. Since its founding in 1964, Charter Arms has produced revolvers chambered in the following calibers:...
Bitstream Charter is a serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter in 1987 for Bitstream Inc. Charter is based on Pierre-Simon Fournier’s characters, originating...
41°45′33″N 72°40′25″W / 41.7593°N 72.6736°W / 41.7593; -72.6736 The Charter Oak was an enormous white oak tree growing on Wyllys Hyll in Hartford,...
Charter International plc was a large British engineering business based in London. It was acquired by Colfax Corporation in January 2012. The British...
California for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945. The charter took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began...
Mandatory Palestine. The 1988 Hamas charter was widely described as antisemitic. The revised 2017 Hamas Charter stated that Hamas's struggle was with...
convene a joint tribunal in Nuremberg, occupied Germany, with the Nuremberg Charter as its legal instrument. Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the...
Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite...
The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles considered useful by its supporters for building a just, sustainable...
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