Charter vs. Chapter — What's the Difference?

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the recipient admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern usage of the term.

One of the main divisions of a relatively lengthy piece of writing, such as a book, that is usually numbered or titled.

A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or other authority, creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, or bank, and defining its privileges and purposes.

One of the main divisions of a video recording, usually accessible through an onscreen menu.

A written grant from the sovereign power of a country conferring certain rights and privileges on a person, a corporation, or the people

A distinct period or sequence of events, as in history or a person's life

A document outlining the principles, functions, and organization of a corporate body; a constitution

A local branch of an organization, such as a club or fraternity

An authorization from a central organization to establish a local branch or chapter.

An assembly of the canons of a church or of the members of a religious residence.

Special privilege or immunity.

The canons of a church or the members of a religious residence considered as a group.

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel or space on a vessel.

A short scriptural passage read after the psalms in certain church services.

The hiring or leasing of an aircraft, vessel, or other vehicle, especially for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

A written instrument given as evidence of agreement, transfer, or contract; a deed.

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.

Of, relating to, or being an arrangement in which transportation is leased by a group of travelers for their exclusive, temporary use.

Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)

To grant a charter to; establish by charter.

An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

To hire or lease by charter

A community of canons or canonesses.

To hire (a bus or airplane, for example) for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

A bishop's council.

A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.

A section of a social body.

A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.

An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.

The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.

A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

A deed legal contract.

A chapter house

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

A provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity

(obsolete) A location or compartment.

Leased or hired.

To divide into chapters.

(transitive) To grant or establish a charter.

To put into a chapter.

(transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.

To use administrative procedure to remove someone.

(of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

(transitive) To take to task.

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.

An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.

A chapter house.

To establish by charter.

A decretal epistle.

A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

A location or compartment.

A contract to hire or lease transportation

To divide into chapters, as a book.

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.

Grant a charter to

A subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled;

Engage for service under a term of contract;

Any distinct period in history or in a person's life;

A local branch of some fraternity or association;

An ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church

A series of related events forming an episode;