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Bylaw and Charter Definitions

Bylaw

A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization.

Charter

A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or other authority, creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, or bank, and defining its privileges and purposes.

Bylaw

A secondary law.

Charter

A written grant from the sovereign power of a country conferring certain rights and privileges on a person, a corporation, or the people
A royal charter exempted the Massachusetts colony from direct interference by the Crown.

Bylaw

A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
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Charter

A document outlining the principles, functions, and organization of a corporate body; a constitution
The city charter.

Bylaw

A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.

Charter

An authorization from a central organization to establish a local branch or chapter.

Bylaw

A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business).

Charter

Special privilege or immunity.
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Bylaw

A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs

Charter

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel or space on a vessel.

Charter

The hiring or leasing of an aircraft, vessel, or other vehicle, especially for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

Charter

A written instrument given as evidence of agreement, transfer, or contract; a deed.

Charter

Of, relating to, or being an arrangement in which transportation is leased by a group of travelers for their exclusive, temporary use.

Charter

To grant a charter to; establish by charter.

Charter

To hire or lease by charter
Charter an oil tanker.

Charter

To hire (a bus or airplane, for example) for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

Charter

A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.

Charter

A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.

Charter

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.

Charter

The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.

Charter

A deed legal contract.

Charter

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

Charter

A provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity

Charter

Leased or hired.

Charter

(transitive) To grant or establish a charter.

Charter

(transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.

Charter

(of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Charter

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

Charter

An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
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.

Charter

An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

Charter

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
My mother,Who has a charter to extol her blood,When she does praise me, grieves me.

Charter

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

To establish by charter.

Charter

A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

Charter

A contract to hire or lease transportation

Charter

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Charter

Grant a charter to

Charter

Engage for service under a term of contract;
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Let's rent a car
Shall we take a guide in Rome?

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