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    A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public...
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    declaration of a municipal charter, a term used because municipal power was historically granted by the sovereign, by royal charter. Charters for chivalric orders...
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    Royal Charter was a steam clipper which was wrecked off the beach of Porth Helaeth in Dulas Bay on the northeast coast of Anglesey, Wales on 26 October...
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    The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a global professional body for those working in the Built Environment, Construction, Land, Property...
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    53°21′14″N 4°14′06″W / 53.354°N 4.235°W / 53.354; -4.235 The Royal Charter Storm (also known as the Great storm of 1859) of 25 and 26 October 1859...
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    The Rhode Island Royal Charter provided royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, approved by England's King Charles...
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  • with royal styles in the United Kingdom includes places granted a royal title or style by express grant from the Crown (usually by royal charter or letters...
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  • their members. Although university charters are issued as royal charters under the royal prerogative, the College Charter Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 63) provides...
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    Magna Carta (redirect from Great Charter)
    Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to...
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  • British royal charter. It includes organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter from an...
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  • authority; professions regulated by professional bodies incorporated by royal charter; professions regulated under Regulation 35; and the seven sectoral professions...
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    granted a royal charter to create the Hudson's Bay Company, under the governorship of Prince Rupert, the king's cousin. According to the Charter, the HBC...
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    Patent. Following the 1660 restoration of royal rule in England, it was necessary to gain a Royal Charter from King Charles II. Charles was a Catholic...
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    global co-operation. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II and is the oldest continuously existing scientific...
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  • A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document (charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The...
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  • chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or...
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    The Royal Charter for the continuance of the British Broadcasting Corporation, short: BBC Charter, is a royal charter setting out the arrangements for...
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    Royal Oak Township is a charter township in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Royal Oak Township borders Detroit...
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    people. The term charter covers a range of written legal documentation, including diplomas, writs and wills. A diploma was a royal charter that granted rights...
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    The Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company was an English royal charter which formally incorporated the joint-stock company for the colonization of...
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  • London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree-awarding examination board for students holding...
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    Hungaricana. "Royal charter issued by Louis II". National Archives of Hungary. 1519. DL 82532. Retrieved July 19, 2023 – via Hungaricana. "Royal charter issued...
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    The granting of royal patronage or royal charter was practised across Europe from the early Medieval period. Initially, however, royal patronage was mainly...
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  • United Kingdom with a royal charter is an incomplete list of organisations based in the United Kingdom that have received a royal charter from an English,...
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    and the University of London as the third university to be granted a royal charter (1836). These have been joined more recently by University College London...
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  • and the Aberdeen Society of Accountants (1867) were each granted a royal charter almost from their inception. The title is an internationally recognised...
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  • other classes being proprietary colony and royal colony. These colonies were operated under a corporate charter given by the crown. The colonies of Virginia...
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  • (post 1800) universities, the date of achieving university status (by royal charter, act of parliament, order in council, or decision of Companies House)...
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  • four years to earn their CFA charter. The top employers of CFA charter-holders globally include JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bank of...
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  • Royal Air Charter Service, Inc., operating as Royal Air Philippines, is a Philippine-registered low-cost airline. The company was established on August...
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