Meanings of old charters in English

Rhode Island and Connecticut kept their old charters, to which they had clung so lovingly.

It was accordingly treated as void, and the old charters were allowed to remain in force.

It happens to be among very old charters, which happen to be wanted for certain excellent antiquarian purposes.

Their old charters were still to be regarded as the sources from whence their State powers had come.

All the old charters are the badges of this conquest, and it is from this source that the capriciousness of election arises.

In fact, we possess in this very office old charters and papers which state that the property was entailed after the European custom.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

The northern part was claimed by Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, on the ground that their old charters, extending to the Pacific, were revived (§ 45).

[Footnote 1: All but two made new constitutions; but Connecticut and Rhode Island used their old charters, the one till 1818, the other till 1842.