charterer (charterer)

1. One who char ters; particularly, in com., one who hires a ship cuted, given as evidence of a grant, contract, by charter-party.-2. A freeholder. [Prov. etc.; any instrument, executed with form and solemnity, bestowing rights and privileges. In modern use the name is ordinarily applied only to government grants of powers or privileges of a permanent or continuous nature, such as incorporation, territorial dominion, or jurisdiction. As between private persons it is also loosely applied to deeds and instruments under seal Eng. (Cheshire).] Charter house (chär'ter-hous), n. [Corruption perhaps of F. Chartreuse , a Car thus i an mon- astery, formed from the name of a waste and savage valley said to have been anciently call- ed Chartrou e, in Dauphiné, in which the first for the conveyance of lands: a title deede Royal charters monastery of the Car thus i ans, la Grande Char are such as are granted by sovereigns in conveying certain rights and privileges to their subjects, such as the Great Charter granted by King John (see Magna Charta, under charta), and charters granted by various sovereigns to boroughs and municipal bodies, to universities and colleges, or to colonies and foreign po e ions; somewhat similar to which are charters granted by the state or legislature to banks and other companies or a ociations, etc. In Scots law a charter is the evidence of a grant of her i treuse, was founded. See Car thus i an.] A charitable institution or hospital and celebrated public school in London, founded in 1611 by Sir Thomas Sutton. It maintains eighty poor brothers (chiefly soldiers and merchants), and forty-four scholars, "the sons of poor gentlemen to whom the charge of education is too onerous." The reputation of its educational department (now at Godalming in Surrey) attracts a large partie, lit. a divided charter, with reference to the practice of cutting the instrument in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors: charte, a charter; partie, fem. of parti, pp. of partir, divide: see chart, part, v., and party.] În com., a written agreement by which a shipowner lets a ve el to another person, usually for the conveyance of cargo, either retaining control of the ve el or surrendering it to the charterer. It usually contains stipulations concerning the places of loading and delivering, the freight payable, the number of lay-days, and the rate of demurrage. Chartism (chär'tizm), n. [