Devolution and Charge

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.

noun

• An impetuous rush toward someone or something.
  • usage: "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
• Criminal law. ( a pleading describing some wrong or offense)
  • usage: "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
  • synonyms: complaint
• The price charged for some article or service.
  • usage: "the admission charge"
• The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons.
  • usage: "the battery needed a fresh charge"
  • synonyms: electric charge
• Attention and management implying responsibility for safety.
  • usage: "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
  • synonyms: care, tutelage, guardianship
• A special assignment that is given to a person or group.
  • usage: "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
  • synonyms: mission, commission
• A person committed to your care.
  • usage: "the teacher led her charges across the street"
• Financial liabilities (such as a tax. )
  • usage: "the charges against the estate"
• Psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object. (
  • usage: "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
  • synonyms: cathexis
• The swift release of a store of affective force.
  • usage: "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
  • synonyms: bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick
• Request for payment of a debt.
  • usage: "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
  • synonyms: billing
• A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.
  • usage: "the judge's charge to the jury"
  • synonyms: commission, direction
• An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence.
  • usage: "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
  • synonyms: accusation
• Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield.
  • synonyms: bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing
• A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
  • usage: "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
  • synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge

verb

• To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle.
  • usage: "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
  • synonyms: bear down
• Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.
  • usage: "he charged the director with indifference"
  • synonyms: accuse
• Demand payment.
  • usage: "Will I get charged for this service"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
  • synonyms: bill
• Move quickly and violently.
  • usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
  • synonyms: tear, shoot, shoot down, buck
• Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.
  • usage: "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
  • synonyms: appoint
• File a formal charge against.
  • usage: "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
  • synonyms: lodge, file
• Make an accusatory claim.
  • usage: "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
• Fill or load to capacity.
  • usage: "charge the wagon with hay"
• Enter a certain amount as a charge.
  • usage: "he charged me $15"
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send
• Give over to another for care or safekeeping.
  • usage: "consign your baggage"
  • synonyms: consign
• Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt.
  • usage: "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase"
• Lie down on command, of hunting dogs.
• Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.
  • usage: "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
  • synonyms: agitate, rouse, turn on, commove, excite, charge up
• Place a heraldic bearing on.
  • usage: "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
• Provide (a device) with something necessary.
  • usage: "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
  • synonyms: load
• Direct into a position for use.
  • usage: "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
  • synonyms: level, point
• Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.
  • usage: "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
  • synonyms: saddle, burden
• Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
• Instruct or command with authority.
  • usage: "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
• Attribute responsibility to.
  • usage: "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
  • synonyms: blame
• Set or ask for a certain price.
  • usage: "How much do you charge for lunch"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
• Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.
  • usage: "charge a conductor"
• Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
  • usage: "I need to charge my car battery"
• Saturate.
  • usage: "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"

• (v.t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
• (v.t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
• (v.t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty or trust; to command, instruct or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
• (v.t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
• (v.t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
• (v.i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
• (n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
• (v.t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax or burden; to load; to fill.
• (v.t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
• (v.t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
• (v.t.) Harm.
• (v.t.) To call to account; to challenge.
• (v.i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
• (v.i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
• (v.t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
• (v.t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold or which is actually in it at one time.
• (v.t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
• (v.t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
• (v.t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
• (v.i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
• (v.t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.
• (v.t.) Custody or care of any person, thing or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
• (v.t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody or management of another; a trust.
• (v.t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
• (v.t.) To lay on, impose or make subject to or liable for.
• (v.t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.
• (v.t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
• (v.t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
• (v.t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
• (n.) Weight; import; value.
• (v.t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
• (v.t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
• (v.t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
• (v.t.) The act of rushing upon or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, especially cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.

Charge is the document evidencing mortgage security required by Crown Law (law derived from English law). A Fixed Charge refers to a defined set of assets and is usually registered. A Floating Charge refers to other assets which change from time to time (ie. Cash, inventory, etc.), which become a Fixed Charge after a default.