tenants' charter

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(in Britain) a package of legal rights to which tenants of local authorities, new towns, and housing associations are entitled, including security of tenure, and the rights to buy the dwelling cheaply, to take in lodgers, and to sublet

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How to use tenants' charter in a sentence

A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
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In neighborhoods such as Harlem, 33 percent of students attend charter schools, a majority of them black or Latino.
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JetBlue has been flying charter jets to Cuba for three years, and others are sure to follow.
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Klein paints a rosy picture of the charter schools, while admitting that not all outperformed traditional public schools.
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Charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.
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First permanent settlement began in 1669; original charter included North Carolina and Georgia.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Benefit societies may be purely voluntary associations or incorporated either by statute or charter.
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They thus establish a law for themselves somewhat like a charter of a corporation.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Gainful corporations have no such power unless it has been granted by their charter or by statute.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
He was one of Dad's tenants, a big purple-faced man, who drank a lot and never took much exercise.
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