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charter
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right|thumb|300px|An example of a charter (Magna Carta). 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. In early medieval Britain, charters transferred land from donors to recipients.
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- Subclass of
- contract
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- Commons category
- Charters
- topic's main category
- Category:Political charters
- different from
- Charta
- has effect
- delegation
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Other usages
- Different types of charters
- Anglo-Saxon charters
- Colony charter
- Congressional charter
- Corporate charter
- Inspeximus charter
- Municipal charter
- Order charter
- Project charter
- Royal charter
- University charter
- Uprising charter
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
right|thumb|300px|An example of a charter (Magna Carta). 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. In early medieval Britain, charters transferred land from donors to recipients.
The word entered the English language from the Old French ', via Latin ', and ultimately from Greek (', meaning "layer of papyrus"). It has come to be synonymous with a document that sets out a grant of rights or privileges.
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