Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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CHARTER-HOUSE

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be performed or paid by him. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, b. 2, c. 1, tit. 1. A writing which contains the grant or transmission of the feudal right to the vassal. Ersk. Inst 2, 3, Id. CHARTER-HOUSE. Formerly a con vent of Carthusian monks in London; now a college founded and endowed by Thomas Button, The governors of the charter-house are a corporation aggregate without a head, president, or superior, all the members being of equal authority. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 14, 97. CHARTER-LAND. Otherwise called "book-land." is property held by deed under certain rents and free services. It, in effect, differs nothing from the free socage lands, and hence have arisen most of the freehold tenants, who hold of particular manors, and owe suit and service to the same. 2 Bl. Comm. 90. CHARTER OP PARDON. In English law. An instrument under the great seal, by which a pardon is granted to a man for a felony or other offense. CHARTER-PARTY. A contract by which an entire ship, or some principal part thereof, is let to a merchant for the convey ance of goods on a determined voyage to one or more places. Abb. Shipp. (241,) 315. A contract of affreightment in writing, by which the owner of a ship lets the whole or a part of her to a merchant, for the conveyance of goods on a particular voyage, in considera tion of the payment of freight. 3 Kent, Comm. 201. A written agreement, not usually under seal, by which a shipowner lets an entire ship, or a part of it, to a merchant for the conveyance of goods, binding himself to transport them to a particular place for a sum of money which the merchant undertakes to pay as freight for their carriage. Maude & P. Mer. Shipp. 227. The contract by which a ship is let is termed a "charter-party." By it the owner may either let the capacity or burden of the ship, continuing the employment of the own er's master, crew, and equipments, or may surrender the entire ship to the charterer, who then provides them himself. The master or part owner may be a charterer. Civil CodeCal. § 1959; Civil Code,Dak. § 1127. CHARTER OP THE FOREST. CnARTA DE FORESTA. See

CHARTER ROLLS. Ancient English records of royal charters, granted between the years 1199 and 1516. CHARTERED SHIP. A ship hired or freighted; a ship which is the subject-matter of a charter-party. CHARTERER. In mercantile law. One who charters (i. e., hires or engages) a ves sel for a voyage; a freighter. 2 Steph. Comm. 184; 3 Kent, Comm. 137. CHARTIS REDDENDIS. (For return ing the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoff ment intrusted to his keeping and refused to de liver them. Reg. Orig. 159. CHARTOPHYLAX. In old European law. A keeper of records or public instru ments ; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman. CHARUE. In old English law. A plow. Bestes des charues; beasts of the plow. CHASE. The liberty or franchise of hunting, one's self, and keeping protected against all other persons, beasts of the chase within a specified district, without regard to the ownership of the land. 2 Bl. Comm. 414-416. A privileged place for the preservation of deer and beasts of the forest, of a middle nature between a forest and a park. It is commonly less than a forest, and not endowed with so many liberties, as officers, laws, courts; and yet it is of larger compass than a park, having more officers and game than a park. Every forest is a chase, but every chase is not a forest. It differs from a paik in that it is not inclosed, yet it most have certain metes and bounds, but it may be in other men's grounds, as well as in one's own. Manwood, 49. CHASTITY. Purity; continence. That virtue which prevents the unlawful inter com se of the sexes. Also the state of purity or abstinence from unlawful sexual connec tion. CHATTEL. An article of personal prop erty; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. The name given to things which in law are deemed personal property. Chattels are divided into chattels real and chattels personal; ohattels real being interests in land which devolve After the manner of personal estate, as leaseholds. As opposed to freeholds, they are regarded as person al estate. But, as being interests in real estate, they are called "chattels real," to distinguish them

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