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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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40 app. u\ sometimes in identical phrases, in the charters of Harvard. Vale and Illinois. A brief examination of these instruments convinces that the chart i r of the com( arva documents, or both. Oxford and Cambridge. The Act of 13 Eliz., C. 29, confirming the "charters, liberties and privileges granted to either of them" (Oxford and Cambridge), in 1571, provided: 1. The name of "Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford" or "of Cambridge." 2. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, respectively "shall be incorporated. 3. They shall "have a perpetual succession in fact, deed and name." 4. They may "implead and be impleaded, and sue and be sued * * * and also answer and defend themselves, under and by the name aforesaid." 5. The University "shall have a common seal to serve for their necessary causes." from le immemorial, which Parliament, "to make j and government of tl therein." (Ayliffe, State of Oxford, II, 240.) 7. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge wort given the power to accept gifts and endowments. [ 13 Eliz., C. 29; Ayliffe, State of Oxford, II, 197 1 Vet of passim Harvard vard College was passed on September 8. KM2. On May 31, 1650, the formal charter of the University was enacted, making it a corporation. We find the fol lowing provisions:
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