Charta
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A charter or deed in writing. Any signal or token by which an estate was held.
Charta Chyrographata
An indenture. The two parts were written on the same sheet, and the word chyrograph written between them in such a manner as to divide the word in the separation of the two parts of the indenture.
Charta Communis
An indenture.
Charta Partita
A charter-party.
Chaeta de Una Paete
A deed poll. A guish a deed poll — which is an agreement made by one party only; that is, only one of the parties does any act which is binding upon him — from a deed inter partes.
Co. Lit I. 229.
See Deed Poll. CHARTA DE FOR EST A (written Cvrta de Foresta). A collection of the laws of the forest, made in the reign of Hen. III. The charta de forcsta was called the Great Charter of the woodland population, nobles, barons, freemen, and slaves, loyally granted by Henry III. early in his reign (A. D. 1217).
Inderwick, King's Peace 159; Stubb's Charters 847.
There is a difference of opinion as to the original charter of the forest similar to that which exists respecting the true and original Magna Carta (q. v.), and for the same reason, viz., that both required repeated confirmation by the kings, despite their vlolability. This justifies the remark of recent historians as to the great charter that "this theoretical sanctity and this practical insecurity are shared with 'the Great Charter of Liberties' by the Charter of the Forest which was issued in 1217."
1 Poll. & Maitl. 158.
It is asserted with great positiveness by Inderwick that no forest charter was ever granted by King John, but that Henry III. issued the charter of 1217 (which he puts in the third year of the reign, which, however, only commenced Oct. 28, lilC), in pursuance of the promises of his father; and Lord Coke, referring to it as a charter on which the lives and liberties of the woodland population depended, says that it was confirmed at least thirty times between the death of John and that of Henry V.; 4 Co. Inst. 303. Webster, under the title Magna Charta, says that the name is applied to the charter granted in the 9th Hen. III. and confirmed by Edw. I. Prof. Maitland, in speaking of Magna Carta, refers to "the sister-charter which defined the forest law" as one of the four documents which, at the death of Henry