Definition of Bank charter

1. Noun. A charter authorizing the operation of a bank.

Generic synonyms: Charter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bank Charter

banjoists
banjolele
banjoleles
banjolike
banjos
banjouke
banjoukes
bank
bank-and-turn indicator
bank-depositor relation
bank account
bank balance
bank bill
bank building
bank card
bank charter (current term)
bank check
bank cheque
bank clerk
bank closing
bank commissioner
bank deposit
bank discount
bank draft
bank examination
bank examiner
bank failure
bank gravel
bank guard
bank holding company

Literary usage of Bank charter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"... that it was particularly necessary to enter upon a full investigation of the policy of renewing the bank charter before any negotiation should bo ..."

2. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"... H CONSTITUTIONALITY OF A NATIONAL BANK [THE FIRST UNITED STATES bank charter] Chartering of the First National Bank—Debate: in Favor, Fisher Ames [Mass. ..."

3. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... nor bank charter renewed, under the authority of this State, without the concurrence of two-thirds of both houses of the general assembly; And provided, ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1839)
"bank charter CONTRACTS BETWEEN THE STATES. The Supreme Court of Louisiana decided, at New Orleans, in the case of the Atchafalaya Bank v. ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"... 1844, on the Renewal of the bank charter. London. 8vo. 1844. 4. Speech of Benjamin Hawes, Jun., Esq., in Opposition to the Second Reading of the Bank of ..."

6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1839)
"bank charter CONTRACTS BETWEEN THE STATES. The Supreme Court of Louisiana decided, at New Orleans, in the case of the Atchafalaya Bank v. ..."

7. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1889)
"renewed the bank charter, settled the affairs of the East India Company, ... The last renewal of the bank charter had heen in 1800; since then events of the ..."

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