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The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or thecontract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a shipis offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below. Charterland (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland.-- Charter member, one of the original members of a society orcorporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the firstproceedings under it.-- Charter party Etym: [F. chartre partie, or charte partie, adivided charter; from the practice of cutting the instrument ofcontract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors](Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by whichthe owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal partof the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter intransportation for his own account, either under their charge or his.-- People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied thedemands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English governmentin 1838.