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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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52) During the middle of the fourteenth century, local authorities began issuing letters of marque and reprisal, or chartae, to Italian merchants against foreign debtors.
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