Charter-House
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Formerly a convent 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.