Charter vs Covenant - What's the difference?
charter | covenant |
A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
the temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
A deed (legal contract).
A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
* Shakespeare
Leased or hired.
(legal) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
(legal) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
An incidental clause in an agreement.
to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant
* L'Estrange
* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 15
(legal) To enter a formal agreement.
(legal) To bind oneself in contract.
(legal) To make a stipulation.
As nouns the difference between charter and covenant
is that charter is a document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges while covenant is an agreement to do or not do a particular thing.As verbs the difference between charter and covenant
is that charter is to grant or establish a charter while covenant is to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.As an adjective charter
is leased or hired.charter
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Alternative forms
* chartre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me.
Adjective
(-)See also
* charter schoolAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----covenant
English
(wikipedia covenant)Alternative forms
* covenaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, as the tenant should direct.
- and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver