Charter vs Declaration - What's the difference?
charter | declaration |
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.
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Leased or hired.
A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
The act or process of declaring.
(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
(legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
(computing) The specification of a variable's type
As nouns the difference between charter and declaration
is that charter is a document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges while declaration is a written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.As an adjective charter
is leased or hired.As a verb charter
is to grant or establish a charter.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.