royal charter
Crown-issued authorization document
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch granting rights, privileges, or status to an institution, corporation, or colony.
Historically, charters established trading companies, universities, and colonial settlements: The British East India Company operated under royal charter.
Today they primarily confer prestigious status on organizations: The Royal Society received its charter in 1662.
- writCourt-issued directive
- Magna CartaCharter curbing royal authority
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- privy sealMonarch's personal authentication stamp
common law · Hudson's Bay Company · monarchy · incorporation · livery company · East India Company · letters of marque · colonialism · borough · constitutional law · grant · university · guilds · legitimacy · crown · seal · founding · privilege
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- Royal thingspalace, castle, throne, crown jewels, coronation regalia
- charterstown charters, city charters, Magna Carta
- Colonialcolonist, colony, settler, plantation, fort
- Colonial Eracolonial assembly, colonial militia, colonial port, crown colony, East India Company
royal charteract of parliament
Law from the legislature
legislative act · constitutional amendment · executive order · statute · decree
royal charterarticles of incorporation
Documents legally creating a corporation