Charter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Corporation or body politic
purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole
Company
as some years ago, styled a Joint Stock Company. A company has its origin either (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with
Chartered
Granted or established by charter having or existing under a charter having a privilege by charter
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bank
transmission of funds branch bank : a banking facility that is a separate but dependent part of a chartered bank ;esp : a facility that performs some banking functions and is separate from a main office bridge
Incorporated Law Society
termed the Law Society, was founded by Mr. Bryan Holme in 1825, and incorporated in 1831 by Royal Charter; this was surrendered for a new Charter in 1845, by which, as amended by Supplemental Charters in 1872,
Fatuous persons
Fatuous persons, idiots. Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to 'liability in tort', Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692. Means negligence, breach of statutory duty
Cyrographum
Cyrographum, an Anglo-Saxon charter, this word being written in capital letters at the top or bottom of the charter and cut through
Contra formam feoffamenti
feoffamenti, a writ that lay for the heir of a tenant enfeoffed of certain lands or tenements, by charter of feoffment from a lord, to make certain services and suits to his court, who was afterwards distrained
demise
will or lease : lease 2 : the transmission of property by testate or intestate succession 3 : charter of a boat in which the owner surrenders completely the possession, command, and navigation of the boat called
Dead freight
not shipped a full cargo for the part not shipped. Amount charged for empty space in a vessel chartered to local a full cargo and which falls short of requirements; an agreed gum to be paid in
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