charterial

English

Etymology

From charter +‎ -ial.

Adjective

charterial (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a charter.
   • 1839, William Hutton, History of Birmingham, Birmingham: Wrightson and Webb, […], page 197:

     A train of attendants, a white wand, and a few fiddles, are only the fringe, lace, and trappings of charterial office.

   • 1846 January 1, Messrs. Youatt and Percivall, editors, The Veterinarian; or, Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, volume XIX / V, new series, London: […] Compton and Ritchie, […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 59:

     Diligently careful as the framers of the charterial instrument were that every veterinary interest—nay, even that every veterinary individual of any weight or consideration—should be consulted, lest through any inadvertency the provisions of the Charter might not turn out such as proved the best for the general weal of the profession;—[…]

   • 1854, James A. Foot, D. D. Keane, W. C. Glen, editors, The Justice of the Peace, volume XVIII, London: […] Robert Shaw, […], page 538, column 3:

     Notwithstanding the suggestion, however, of two such authorities, no one, with the exception perhaps of Mr. Norton in his commentaries on the history, constitution, and charterial franchises of the city of London, appears to have been bold enough to grapple with the subject until Mr. Pulling applied himself to its elucidation.

   • 1897, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1896, New York, N.Y., Albany, N.Y.: Banks & Brothers, page 655:

     […] that whilst the legislature may deprive the corporation of its charterial rights, and forbid its exercising any of the governmental powers, it must not be presumed that it intended also to absolve it from its liabilities to creditors, or to contractors whose rights to compensation have become vested; […]

   • 1907, The Revised Code of St. Louis (General Ordinances.) […], St. Louis, Mo.: Sam’l F. Myerson Printing Co., page 681:

     […] the validity of the ordinance was sustained against numerous charterial and constitutional objections sought to be invoked against it in both state and federal courts.

   • 1977, Steven Fanning, A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006–1047 (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; volume 78, part 1), Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, […], published 1988, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 93:

     Likewise, entries in chronicles and annals are not placed in this study unless they indicate that charterial material was probably the source for that information.

   • 1987, Medieval Prosopography, page 55:

     He begins by observing that while in Germany the early tenth century is rather poor in narrative and charterial sources, there is an abundance of material in the necrologies, death annals, and fraternal books of that kingdom’s […]

   • 1988, Mr. Pollock, quotee, Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1988, volume 122-A, page 50, column 2:

     In other words, if we wanted to raise a claim that Council didn’t have the charterial authority to appoint, then it should have been done a long time ago and we are precluded from now raising it at this time.