Bylaw vs. Charter

Bylawnoun

A local custom or law of a settlement or district.

Bylawnoun

A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.

Bylawnoun

A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business).

Bylawnoun

a rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs

Charternoun

A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.

Charternoun

A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.

Charternoun

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.

Charternoun

The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.

Charternoun

A deed legal contract.

Charternoun

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

Charternoun

a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity

Charteradjective

Leased or hired.

Charterverb

(transitive) To grant or establish a charter.

Charterverb

(transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.

Charterverb

(of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Charternoun

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

Charternoun

An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.

Charternoun

An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

Charternoun

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

Charternoun

The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.

Charterverb

To establish by charter.

Charterverb

To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.

Charternoun

a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

Charternoun

a contract to hire or lease transportation

Charterverb

hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Charterverb

grant a charter to

Charterverb

engage for service under a term of contract;

Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the recipient admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern usage of the term.