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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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HHHHH^V • • • • • • 1. The roll shall l)e rail I by the name of President ami Felkn * of Harvard Collcg( ; in 13 Eliz C. > the h al name of Oxford was d< ired to he . the Chancel! Mast rs ami Scholars of Oxford Uni versity 2. The College is made a "hody politic and corporal 3. It "shall have perpetual succession." 4. It may su and plead, or be sued and impleaded, by the name aforesaid." The phrase "by the name aforesaid" is a literal copy from 13 Eliz., C. 29, Ayliffe, opcit.. II. 198. 5. The governing body may "make and appoint a common seal for the use of the said corporation." 6. The governing body may "make * * * such orders and by-laws, for the better ordering and carrying on of the work of the College." 7. Power to accept gifts was given the College. Charters and Laws of American Universities, Chambers, Appendix.) Yale. The charter of Yale University was granted in 1745 by the general court of Connecticut. It provided : 1. The name of the College was "the President and Fellows of Yale College." 2. It shall be a "body corporate and politic." 3. "By the same name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession." 4. They shall "be persons in the law capable to plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, and answer and be answered unto." 5. They "shall have a common seal to serve and use for all causes, matters and affairs of them and of their successors." The charter of Oxfon as shown above,
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