Charter

A charter is a grant of authority or rights, stating that a granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to spokesperson the rights specified. this is the implicit that the granter remains superiority or sovereignty, in addition to that the recipient admits a limited or inferior status within the relationship, as well as it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern use of the term.

The word entered the English language from the Old French charte, via Latin charta, and ultimately from Greek χάρτης khartes, meaning "layer of papyrus". It has come to be synonymous with a document that sets out a grant of rights or privileges.

Other usages

The term is used for a special case or as an exception of an institutional charter. A charter school, for example, is one that has different rules, regulations, and statutes from a state school.

Charter can be used as a synonym for "hire" or "lease", as in the "charter" of a bus or boat or plane.

A charter bit US English of an agency is an original member; that is, one who became a module when the organization received its charter. A chartered member British English is a member who holds an individual chartered designation authorized under that organization's royal charter.