Law Dictionary

An indenture.

A deed executed in two parts.—Stimson.

A collection of the laws of the forest, made in 9 Hen. III., and said to have been originally a part of Magna Charta.

A charter or deed of a thing not in being is not valid. Co. Litt. 36.

A deed-poll.

The Magna Charta and the Charta de Foresta. See 4 Bl. Comm. 423.

Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta {q. v.) CHARTARUM SUPER FiDEM, IVIORTUIS testibus, ad patriam de necessitudine, recurrendum est. The witnesses being dead, the truth of charters

A deed is nothing else than the vestment of a gift. Co. Litt 36.

A charter-party.

If the witnesses are dead, the credibility of deeds must of necessity be referred to the country.

Fr. A chart or plan, which mariners use at sea.

A challenge to single combat.

A challenge to single combat. Used at the period when trial by single combat existed. Cowell.

(French) A charter-party.

any agreement, contract, lease, or commitment by which the possession or services of a vessel are secured for a period of time, or for one or more voyages, whether or not a demise

2. Aninstrument emanating from the sovereign power, in the nature of a grant, either to the whole nation, or to a class or portion of the people, or to a colony or dependency, and

In modem law. A grant in writing of certain privileges and franchises, (usually to a corporation) b^ the supreme power of a state; an act of mcorporation. In this sense, the origin

“charter air carrier” means an air carrier holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity that authorizes it to provide charter air transportation.

The terms “air carrier”, “aircraft”, “air transportation”, “cargo”, and “charter air transportation” have the meanings given such terms by section 40102(a) of title 49 . / In this

Charters granted to private corporations are held to be contracts. Powers and privileges are conferred by the State, and corresponding duties and obligations are assumed by the cor

See Auditor. CHART IS REDDENDIS (Lat. for returning charters). A writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping, which he refused to deliver. Reg

A ship hired or freighted; a ship which is the subject-matter of a charter-party.

One who engages a ship for a voyage. CHARTIS REDDENDIS (Lat. for returning charters), A writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping which he r

the ship owner, who let his ship to hire to another, whether manned and equipped or not, enters into a contract totally distinct from that of him who engages to employ her himself

The term “charter fishing” means fishing from a vessel carrying a passenger for hire (as defined in section 2101 of title 46 ) who is engaged in recreational fishing. / The term “c

any charge above 50% of profits; after these charges are computed, the Commission is entitled to 50% of remaining excess profits.

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,

There is no doubt that, by the law as understood in Massachusetts, at least, the provisions of Rev. Laws, Chap. 112, § 72, ... if they had been inserted in the charter in terms, wo

In English law. Land formerly held by deed under certain rents and free services. It differed in nothing from free socage land; and it was also called "bookland." 2 Bl. Comm. 90. C

The term “charter management organization” means a nonprofit organization that operates or manages a network of charter schools linked by centralized support, operations, and overs

A coal mining contractor.

In English law. An instrument under the great seal, by which a pardon is granted to a man for a felony or other offense.

A charter granting a pardon.

Charters of private corporations are regarded as executed contracts between the government and the corporators, and the rule is well settled that the legislature cannot repeal, imp

See Charta de Foresta .

A charter party may be a contract for the lease of the vessel, or for a special service to be rendered by the owner of the vessel. Where, as is very frequently the case, the shipow

Old records of charters.

The term “charter school” has the meaning given that term in section 4310 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. / The term “charter school” has the meaning given t

The term “charter school support organization” means a nonprofit, nongovernmental entity that is not an authorized public chartering agency and provides, on a statewide basis— (A)

The term “charter vessel” means any vessel licensed by the State to carry passengers for hire for the purpose of recreational salmon fishing.

A writ to secure the return of deeds.

The charters (grants) of liberties. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta.

A keeper of records or public instruments.—Spelman.

In old E)uropean law. A keeper of records or public instruments; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman.

I fr. In old English law. A

In old English law. A plow. Bestes des charues, beasts of the plow. Artie. Sup. Chart, c. 12; Britt. c. 21.

Fr. Every. Assiz. de Jerus. c. ix.

The liberty or franchise of hunting one's self and keeping protected against all other persons beasts of the chase within a specified district, without regard to the ownership of t

I. I. In old English law. A chase, v. Chacea; Chase.

Lat. A chase. SpeU man^ too. Chacea, See Chace, Chacea.

I. fr. To chase or hunt; to drive; to compel. Chase de pleder: driven to plead.

In the seduction statutes it means actua] virtue in conduct and principle. One who falls from virtue and afterwards reforms is chaste within the meaning of the statutes; Wood v. St

This term, as used in statutes, means actual personal virtue, and not reputation or good name. It may include the character of one who was formerly unchaste but is reformed. Kenyon

To punish corporally.

That virtue which prevents the unlawful commerce of the sexes. Content without lawful venery is continence; without unlawful is chastity. Webster. CHATTEL (Norman Fr.) Goods of any

Fr. Bought. Ke Uiam. See Achate, Achater.

chatell, chatel, L. fr. In old English law. A chattel. Chatelle moeble: a movable or personal chattel. Chateux, chateus, cateux: chattels; cattle. Chateux moebles: movable or perso

Cateux. L. Fr. [pi. of chatelle.] Chattels. Britt. cc. 1, 20; 26, 27, 28, 101. i;t«.'sect. 321. Beg. Orig. 93 b, nota. CJiateux moebles, moveable or personal chattels. Id. ibid. Ch

The word chattel, in its ordinary signification, includes every species of property which is not real estate or freehold, and the words goods, wares, and merchandise are undoubtedl

An interest In corporeal hereditaments less than a freehold. 2 Kent, Comm. 342. There may be a chattel interest in real property, as in case of a lease. Stearns, Real Actions, 115.

A chattel mortgage is only a bill of sale with a defeasance incorporated in it.

The note executed by Grimes for eleven thousand and some odd dollars was negotiable, and the chattel mortgage was given at that time to secure the payment of the note. The indorsem

Tangible personal property.

formerly written C ATALS. et, Lat. catalla, L. Fr. chateux, cateux.] oveable goods, and all other property or estate, not amounting to a freehold. Chattels were formerly divided in

otherwise called THINGS PERSONAL, comprise all sorts of things moveable, as goods, plate, money, jewels, implements of war, garments, animals and vegetable productions; as the frui

Such chattels as concern, are annexed to, or savor of the realty; as terms for years of land, and mortgages; and, in English law, next presentations to a church, estates by statute

Cant. T., 1. 101 (1300). In records of London for 1396 " serving man " is said to be " called yoman." " Youngman " is used for "yeoman " in 33 Hen. VTTT (1?42). 4. Greek, gg, earth

A killing in an affray in the heat of passion. See 4 Bl. Comm. 184.

A kind of tenure mentioned in a patent of 35 Edw. III. Cowell; Blount

chauncelrie, I fr. Chancery.

Same as Chantry.

Money paid to the crown by the servants or purchasers of chauntry or chantry lands. 22 Car. II. c. 6. See "Chantry."

Fr. Fa Uen. Id. CHEAT or CHEATING. In criminal law. The oflfence of defrauding, or endeavori Dg to defraud another of his known right, by means of some artful device, contrary to t

"Deceitful practices in defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by some willful device, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty." Hawk. P. C. bk. 2,

or ESCHEATORS. Officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a duty which gave them gn^eat opportunities of fraud and oppression, and in consequence many complaints were ma

Were officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a duty which gave them great opportunities of fraud and oppression, and in consequence many complaints were made of their

Cheser. L. Fr. To fall. Checer in debat; to come in question or debate. Kelhanu See Cheir.

A book containing blank checks on a particular bank or banker, with an inner margin, calied a "stub," on which to note the number of each check, its amount and date, and the payee'

The truth is, that a check is properly neither a bond, bill, or note, with regard to the bank drawn upon, but an acquittance. And the contract arising out of a payment upon it, is

n. A draft or order upon a bank or banking-house, purporting to be drawn upon a deposit of funds, for the payment at all events of a certain sum of money stuntly on demand. 2 Danie

A book containing blanks for checks.

A book containing blanks for checks. These books are so arranged as to leave a margin, called by merchants a stump, or stubb, when the check is filled out and torn off. Upon these

The term “check clearinghouse association” means any arrangement by which participant depository institutions exchange deposited checks on a local basis, including an entire metrop

when such bank performs the dual function of collecting and crediting the transaction is closed, and, in the absence of fraud or mutual mistake, is equivalent to payment in usual c

The old Scotch form of exchequer. Skene de Verb. Sign.

A book of blank bank checks.

to deduct those dues periodically from the company's wage payments to the employees

The term “check processing region” means the geographical area served by a Federal Reserve bank check processing center or such larger area as the Board may prescribe by regulation

A list or book, containing the names of such as are attendants on, or in the pay of, the queen or other great personages, as their household servants. 19 Car. II. c. 1. Rapalje & L

See Oleomaegahine; Police. 3.

(French) A head or chief.

In Anglo-Norman law. Were or weregfild; the price of the head or person (capitis' pretium). Laws Gul. Conq. 11.

The offense of defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by means of some artful devioei, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty. •Checer, cheser, I.

In old French law. The privilege or prerogative of the eldest. See "Chemier." CHEMrER (Fr.) In old French law. The eldest bom. A term used in Poitou and other places. Guyot, Inst.

the term "chemical agent" means a spray or injection used to temporarily incapacitate a person, including oleoresin capsicum spray, tear gas, and 2-chlorobenzalmalononitr

The term “chemical agent and munition” means an agent or munition that, through its chemical properties, produces lethal or other damaging effects on human beings, except that such

The court takes judicial notice that to analyze a beverage requires not only learning and skill in chemistry, but instruments and appliances not in common use; State v. Powell, 141

The term “chemical mixture” means a combination of two or more chemical substances, at least one of which is not a list I chemical or a list II chemical, except that such term does

Chemical parcel-tanker.—The term “chemical parcel-tanker” means a vessel that has— (A) a cargo-carrying capability consisting of individual cargo tanks for bulk chemicals that— (i)