4. A special privilege, immunity, or
exemption.
My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me.
Shak.
5. (Com.) The letting or hiring a
vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby
a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or
charter. See Charter party, below.
Charter land (O. Eng. Law),
land
held by charter, or in socage; bookland. --
Charter
member,
one of the original members of a society or
corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the
first proceedings under it. --
Charter
party [F.
chartre partie, or
charte
partie, a divided charter; from the practice of cutting the
instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the
contractors]
(Com.),
a mercantile lease of a vessel; a
specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire
vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person,
to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account,
either under their charge or his. --
People's
Charter (Eng. Hist.),
the document which embodied
the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English
government in 1838.
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