chartered company

But chartered companies go back into the medieval period.

In 1777 it was turned over to the government by the chartered company and became a Danish crown colony.

Could a chartered company like the South Sea truly turn to murder to further its business?

This is usually a colonizing power, or at least mandated by one, as in the case of colonial chartered companies.

"But don't they have a chartered company there?"

We are a chartered company, and we have an excellent legal department, which keeps us safely inside our charter.

During the 17th century, traders in Stockholm made several failed attempts to establish chartered companies to promote foreign trade.

A chartered company is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration and colonisation.

Between 1659 and 1779, nine chartered companies succeeded one another in administering Saint-Louis.

Chartered companies were usually formed, incorporated and legitimised under a royal or, in republics, an equivalent government charter.

These new trading systems brought about the end of many of the international fairs and the rise of the chartered company.

More significant, in view of later developments in northern Europe, were the Genoese chartered companies.

The chartered company appears to have been closely related to the organizations (mantes or compere) created by the state to raise money.

The company retains some of the original land grant and is widely-believed to be the last chartered company still operating.

During the time of colonial expansion in the 17th century, the true progenitors of the modern corporation emerged as the "chartered company".

Some of these treaties claimed to a transfer of sovereignty to the company, which may have had the ambition to become a Chartered company.

The new protectorates were thereafter managed by Vincenzo Filonardi through a chartered company.

The proprietor would choose a governor for the colony, paying perhaps more attention to making sure he was acceptable to the King than the chartered companies did.

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers vowed to swiftly overhaul the oversight of the federally chartered company.

The company name was changed later to that of the 'Liberian Development Chartered Company'.

Mabstoa was a publicly chartered company, separate from the Transit Authority, which ran the buses in the other three boroughs.

"A Chartered Company - under German protection," was Herzl's request.

Its ambition was to become a Chartered company and control the route from the Lake along the Shire River.

Mr. Fujimori announced that foreign airlines and chartered companies would now be able to fly here directly, bypassing Lima.

Chancellor Otto von Bismarck sought to utilize the traders on site in governing the region via "chartered companies".