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Charta

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

carta, I I.

In old English law

A charter, or deed; a writing under seal, by which conveyances, contracts, covenants, etc., were evidenced and ratified; any token by which an estate was held; a royal grant of privileges or liberties. Charta communis: a comor chyrograpliata: a charter executed the middle where the word cyrographtim ten, a chirographed charter. Cliarta feoffment Cliarta de foresta: the granted in the ninth year of the reign the laws of the forest.

Cliarta de a deed poll

Gharta de quiete Cliarta de conflrmatioiie: a cliarter nou ente nou Talet: a deed of a Charta partita: a charter-party, v. In the civil law. Paper; the material etc., were written; an instrument or paper.,