Chartered company

Company created by charter

Admiralty law

History

* Code of Hammurabi

Corpus Juris Civilis
* Digesta
* Ordinamenta et consuetudo maris
* Amalfian Laws
* Hanseatic League

Features

* Fishing
* Illegal
* Fisheries law
* Maritime transport
* Shipping/Ferry
* Cargo
* Freight
* Shipbuilding
* Merchant marine
* Cargo ship
* Passenger ship
* Mortgage
* Registration
* Marine insurance

* Act of God
* Cargo
* Collision
* General average
* Seaworthiness
* Total loss
* Maritime security
* Letter of marque
* Drugs
* Piracy
* Pollution
* Smuggling
* Wartime prizes

Contract of carriage/Charterparty

* Affreightment
* Agency
* Barratry
* Bill of lading
* Brokerage
* Chartering
* Consignment
* Demurrage
* Force majeure
* Invoice
* Commercial
* Pro forma
* Laytime
* Lien
* Maritime
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* Packing list
* Proof of delivery
* Salvage
* Law
* Terms
* International
* Waybill

Parties

* Agent
* Factor
* Freight forwarder
* Captain (Master)
* The captain goes down with the ship
* Carrier

* Charterer
* Freight company
* Manager
* Consignee
* Consignor
* Principal
* Owner
* Seaman
* Mutiny
* Stevedore

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* Admiralty court
* Vice admiralty court

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* Hague-Visby Rules
* Hamburg Rules
* Rotterdam Rules
* Maritime Labour Convention
* International Convention on Salvage
* United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

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* SOLAS Convention
* MARPOL Convention
* Ballast Water Management Convention
* Anti-fouling Convention
* International Convention on Load Lines
* International Regulations for
Preventing Collisions at Sea

* SAR Convention
* Athens Convention

International organizations

* International Maritime Organization
* Comité Maritime International
* London Maritime Arbitrators Association

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A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, or colonization, or a combination of these.[1]

## Notable chartered companies (with years of formation)

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### Austrian

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* 1719 Imperial Privileged Oriental Company
* 1722 Ostend Company
* 1775 Austrian East India Company[note 1]

### British

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* 1711 South Sea Company
* 1752 African Company of Merchants (abolished 1821)
* 1792 Sierra Leone Company
* 1824 Van Diemen's Land Company
* 1825 Canada Company
* 1825 New Zealand Company
* 1835 South Australian Company
* 1840 Polynesia Company
* 1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
* 1853 Standard Chartered
* 1881 British North Borneo Company
* 1886 Royal Niger Company
* 1888 Imperial British East Africa Company
* 1889 British South Africa Company

The article Chartered Companies in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, by William Bartleet Duffield, contains a detailed narrative description of the development of some of the companies in England and, later, Britain.[2]

### Dutch

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* 1599-1602 Brabantsche Compagnie
* 1602–1799 Dutch East India Company (VOC)
* 1614 New Netherland Company
* 1614 Australische Compagnie
* 1614–1642 Noordsche Compagnie (Nordic Company)
* 1621–1792 Dutch West India Company[note 2]
* 1683-1795 Sociëteit van Suriname
* 1720 Society of Berbice
* 1841 Compagnie belge de colonisation [fr]

### English

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* 1407 Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
* 1552 Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers
* 1553 Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
* 1555 Muscovy Company
* 1577 Spanish Company
* 1579 Eastland Company
* 1581 Turkey Company
* 1583 Venice Company
* 1585 Barbary Company
* 1592 Levant Company[note 3]
* 1600 East India Company[note 4]
* 1606 Virginia Company
* 1606 Plymouth Company
* 1609 French Company
* 1610 London and Bristol Company
* 1616 Somers Isles Company
* 1618 Guinea Company
* 1619 New River Company
* 1620 Council for New England
* 1629 Massachusetts Bay Company
* 1629 Providence Island Company
* 1635 Courteen association
* 1664–1674 Royal West Indian Company
* 1670 Hudson's Bay Company
* 1672 Royal African Company
* 1691 Hollow Sword Blade Company
* 1693 Greenland Company
* 1694 Bank of England

### French

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* 1625 Compagnie de Saint-Christophe
* 1627 Company of One Hundred Associates
* 1664 Compagnie de l'Occident
* 1717 Mississippi Company (Compagnie du Mississippi)
* 1635 Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique
* 1660 Compagnie de Chine
* 1664 French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes orientales)
* 1664 French West India Company (Compagnie des Indes occidentales)

### German

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* 1682 Brandenburg African Company
* 1752 Emden Company
* 1882 German New Guinea Company
* 1884 German East Africa Company
* 1885 German West African Company
* 1891 Astrolabe Company

### Polish-Lithuanian

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* 1783–1793 Trade Company Poland (Black Sea Trade Company)

### Portuguese

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* 1482 Companhia da Guiné
* 1628 Portuguese East India Company
* 1888 Companhia de Moçambique
* 1891 Companhia do Niassa

### Russian

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* 1799–1867 Russian-American Company

### Scandinavian

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* 1347 or earlier Stora Enso
* 1616 Danish East India Company[note 5]
* 1626–1680 Swedish South Company, also called New Sweden Company[note 6]
* 1649–1667 Swedish Africa Company[note 7]
* 1671 Danish West India Company
* 1721 Bergen Greenland Company
* 1731–1813 Swedish East India Company
* 1749 General Trade Company
* 1774 Royal Greenland Trading Department
* 1786–1805 Swedish West India Company[note 8][3]
* 1738 Swedish Levant Company[note 9][3]

### Scottish

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* 1634 Guinea Company of Scotland
* 1698 Company of Scotland

### Spanish

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See also: Casa de Contratación

* 1728–1785 Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas
* 1755–1785 Barcelona Trading Company
* 1785–1814 Royal Company of the Philippines
* Honduras Company
* Seville Company
* Havana Company

### Italian

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From 3 August 1889 to 15 May 1893 Filonardi was the first Governor of Italian Somaliland and was in charge of an Italian company responsible for the administration of the Benadir territory, called Societa' Filonardi.

* 1889 – 1893 Filonardi Company

## Gallery

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* Share certificate of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated 16 June 1288

* The British East India Company's headquarters in London

* The arms of the British South Africa Company

## See also

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* American Colonization Society
* Articles of association
* Articles of incorporation
* Articles of organization
* British colonisation of the Americas
* Certificate of incorporation
* Charter
* Collegium
* Congressional charter
* Government-sponsored enterprise
* Hong (business)
* South Manchuria Railway and Chinese Eastern Railway

## Notes

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1. ^ The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), active in India.
2. ^ The original West India Company collapsed in 1674, and the New West India Company took its place in 1675 and persisted until 1792.
3. ^ Merger of the Turkey Company and the Venice Company.
4. ^ Became the largest colonial empire in the 19th century.
5. ^ Governed Danish India from Trankebar.
6. ^ Created in connection with the Swedish colony New Sweden (Nya Sverige); absorbed by the Dutch; presently in Delaware.
7. ^ On the short-lived Swedish Gold Coast.
8. ^ Created in connection with the colonisation of Saint Barthélemy.
9. ^ A failed attempt to organise Swedish trade in the eastern Mediterranean region.

## References

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1. ^ Tony Webster (25 May 2015). "British and Dutch Chartered Companies". Oxford Bibliographics. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
2. ^ Duffield, William Bartleet (1911). "Chartered Companies" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 950–952.
3. ^ a b Björn Hallerdt (1994). Sankt Eriks årsbok 1994: Yppighet och armod i 1700-talets Stockholm (in Swedish). Stockholm: Samfundet S:t Erik. pp. 9–10. ISBN 91-972165-0-X.

## Bibliography

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* Ferguson, Niall (2003). Empire—How Britain Made the Modern World. London, United Kingdom: Allan Lane.
* Micklethwait, John; Wooldridge, Adrian (2003). The company: A short history of a revolutionary idea. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 9780679642497.
* Ross, R. (1999). A Concise History of South Africa. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521575782.

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Chartered companies

British|

* African Company of Merchants
* Barbary Company
* British American Land Company
* British East Africa Company
* Canada Company
* Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
* Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
* Company of Scotland
* East India Company
* Eastern Archipelago Company
* Eastland Company
* Guinea Company
* Hudson's Bay Company
* Levant Company
* London and Bristol Company
* Massachusetts Bay Company
* Muscovy Company
* New Zealand Company
* North Borneo Company
* Providence Island Company
* Royal African Company
* Royal British Bank
* Royal Niger Company
* South Africa Company
* Sierra Leone Company
* Somers Isles Company
* South Australian Company
* South Sea Company
* Spanish Company
* Venice Company
* Virginia Company
* Plymouth Company
* Virginia Company of London

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* Compagnie de l'Occident
* Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique
* Company of Habitants
* Company of One Hundred Associates
* East India Company
* Mississippi Company
* Senegal Company
* West India Company

German|

* Brandenburg African Company
* East Africa Company
* Emden Company
* New Guinea Company
* West African Company

Portuguese|

* Cacheu and Cape Verde Company
* East India Company
* Grão Pará and Maranhão Company
* Company of Guinea
* House of India
* Mozambique Company
* Zambezia Company
* Niassa Company

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* Brabantsche Compagnie
* Dutch East India Company
* Imperial Company of Trieste and Antwerp
* Imperial Privileged Oriental Company
* New Netherland Company
* Noordsche Compagnie
* Ostend Company
* Dutch West India Company
* Compagnie van Verre
* Compagnie van De Moucheron
* Veerse Compagnie

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* Barcelona Trading Company
* Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas
* Royal Company of the Philippines

Swedish|

* Swedish Africa Company
* Swedish East India Company
* Swedish Levant Company
* Swedish South Company
* Swedish West India Company

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* Danish Asiatic Company
* Danish East India Company
* Danish West India Company
* Royal Greenland Trading Department

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