KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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CHARRE OF LEAD

CHARTER-PARTY

T. Supp. 895; Kentucky Female Orphan School r. Louisville, 100 Ky. 470, 36 S. W. 921, 40 L. R. A. 119. A quantity con sisting of 36 pigs of lead, each pig weighing about 70 pounds. CHART. The word "chart," as used in the copyright law, does not include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor v. Gilman (C. C.) 24 Fed. 632. CHARTA. 5n old English law. A charter or deed; an instrument written and sealed; the formal evidence of conveyances and contracts. Also any signal or token by which an estate was held. The term came to be applied, by way of eminence, to such documents as proceeded from the sovereign, granting liberties or privileges, and either where the recipient of the grant was the whole nation, as in. the case of Magna Char ta, or a public body, or private individual, in which case it corresponded to the modern word "charter." In the civil law. Paper, suitable for the inscription of documents or books; hence, any instrument or writing. See Dig. 32, 52, 6; Nov. 44, 2. —Charta communis. In old English law. A common or mutual charter or deed; one containing mutual covenants, or involving: mu tuality of obligation; one to which both par ties might have occasion to refer, to establish their respective rights. Bract, fols. 33b, 34.— Charta cyrographata. In old English law. A chirographed charter; a charter executed in two parts, and cut through the middle, (scindi tur per medium,) where the word "cyrograph um," or "chirographum," was written in large letters. Bract, fol. 34; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, f 3.—Charta de foresta. A collection of the laws of the forest, made in the 9th Hen. III. and said to have been originally a part of Magn-a Charta. —Charta de una parte. A deed-poll.—Charta partita. (Literally, a deed divided.) A charter-party. 3 Kent, Comm. 201. Charta non est nisi vestimentum do nationis. A deed is nothing else than the vestment of a gift. Co. Litt 36. CHARRE OF LEAD.

two states for settling the exchange of pris oners of war.

CHARTER, v. In mercantile law. To hire or lease a vessel for a voyage. A "char tered" is distinguished from a "seeking" ship. 7 East, 24. CHARTER, ». An instrument emanating from the sovereign power, in the nature of a grant, either to the whole nation, or to a class or portion of the people, or to a colony or dependency, and assuring to them certain rights, liberties, or powers. Such was the "Great Charter" or "Magna Charta," and such also were the charters granted to cer tain of the English colonies in America. See Story, Const. § 161. An act of the legislative department of government, creating a corporation, is called the "charter" of the corporation. Merrick v. Van Santvoord, 34 N. Y. 2(14; Bent v. Under down, 156 Ind. 516, 60 N. E. 307; Morris & E. R. Co. v. Com'rs, 37 N. J. Law, 237. In old English law. The term denoted a deed or other written instrument under seal; a conveyance, covenant, or contract. In old Scotch law. A disposition made by a superior to his vassal, for something to be performed or paid by him. 1 Forb. Inst, pt. 2, b. 2, c. 1, tit. 1. A writing which con tains the grant or transmission of the feudal right to the vassal. Ersk. Inst. 2, 3, 19. —Charter of pardon. In English law. An instrument under the great seal, by which a pardon is granted to a man for a felony or oth er offense.—Charter of the forest. See CHARTA DE FOKESTA.—Charter rolls. An cient English records of royal charters, granted between the years 1199 and 1516. Formerly a con vent of Carthusian monks in London; now a college founded and endowed by Thomas Sutton. 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. Otherwise called "book-land," is property held hy 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. 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. The Harvey and Henry, 86 Fed. 656, 30 C. C. A. 330; The New York (D. C.) 93 Fed. 497; Vandewater v. The Yankee Blade, 28 Fed. Cas. 980; Spring v. Gray, 6 Pet 151, 8 L. Ed. 352; Fish v. Sullivan, 40 CHARTER-HOUSE. CHARTER-LAND. CHARTER-PARTY. A contract

CHARTiE IilBERTATUM.

The char

ters (grants) of liberties. These are

Magna

Charta and Charta de Foresta.

Chartarum super fidem, mortuis tes tibus, ad patriam de necessitudine re eurrendum est. Co. Litt. 36. The wit nesses being dead, the truth of charters must of necessity be referred to the country, i. e., a jury.

CHARTE.

Fr. A chart, or plan, which

mariners use at sea.

CHARTE-PARTIE. Fr. rine law. A charter-party.

In French ma

CHARTEL. A challenge to a single com bat; also an instrument or writing between BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)—13