Charta

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CHARTA. An ancient word which signified not only a charter or deed in writing, but any signal or token by which an estate was held.

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Rigid Paper develops and supplies recycled fluting and liner materials to the corrugated industry and their brand of single faced corrugated protective packaging is Charta.

Rigid Boosts Production

T]he plaintiffs could claim no title under the act in question, as it was against common right, as well as against magna charta, to take away the freehold of one man and vest it in another, and that, too, to the prejudice of third persons, without any compensation, or even a trial by the jury of the country, to determine the right in question.

The oxymoron reconsidered: myth and reality in the origins of substantive due process

The conflict between king and citizens that preceded the Magna Charta concerned, among other things, opposition to this absolute power of the Crown to grant private rights in the shore, particularly as these rights interfered with the free navigation which was so essential to the rising commercial classes.

Untwisting the common law: public trust and the Massachusetts colonial ordinance

Stora purchased from China Renaissance 75% of the ordinary shares of Purple Charta Investment Limited, a British Virgin Island corporation.

STORA BUYS MAJORITY STAKE IN CHINESE PAPER FIRM

Burke had repeatedly raised the question of civil rights for Indian plaintiffs, and had gone so far as to contrast the Magna Charta with "charters .

"You should be my master": imperial recognition politics in Elizabeth Inchbald's 'Such Things Are.'

Such movements as the Hungarian workers' associations in 1956, Charta `77 in the former Czechoslovakia and Solidarnosc in Poland in the eighties were mouth-pieces of civil society and were closely related to critical theories, social sciences and sociology.

Sizing up the forest, or brief reflection on the question of whether there is such a thing as society

In effect, the king who had prorogued Parliament four times in his short reign, once for a stretch of eleven years, was now attempting to disenfranchise Parliament, to move the seat of government out of London, and to claim, contrary to Magna Charta, that English sovereignty resided not in the "king-in-parliament" but, if necessary, in a king without or at war with Parliament.

Landscaping the field of discourse: political slant and poetic slope in Sir John Denham's "Cooper's Hill."

Peel's Act could have become a Magna Charta for financial stability of Great Britain and the whole free world, had the Act not contained a few major loopholes and inadequacies which were an impediment for its normal functioning.

Section 2: the voice of history and monetary lessons from past British experience

It contained the text of the Magna Charta and other English statutes on freedom and property.

1680-1689: Publishing; arts and music; popular entertainment; architecture; theatre

Women do possess all these in an eminent degree, and I insist that they shall appeal to the courts and through them establish the powers of our American magna charta to protect every citizen of the republic.

Women's right to vote

One cannot anticipate going to a museum and viewing the Taxpayer Bill of Rights document alongside the Magna Charta and the U.

The 1988 tax bill: ignorance is not bliss

It looks out over Greece's House of Parliament (the former Royal Palace) and Constitution Square--so named when Otto, the German-turned-Greek-king, was forced, like King John of Magna Charta fame, to guarantee a few liberties in writing.