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 == Links to Charters ==
-* [http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/Charters_Statutes_October%202012.pdf University Charter and Statutes of 1959 as Amended to October 2012 (PDF)]
+* [http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters_Statutes_December%202015_Printed%20January2015.pdf University Charter and Statutes of 1959 as Amended to December 2015 (PDF)]
 * "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1836) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cHo4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
 * "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1854) [http://books.google.com/books?id=i22Zf8BMbjYC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]

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 == Columbia's Charters ==
 Columbia was born as a legal entity on [[October 31]], [[1754]] (although classes had already convened in July 1754), when Governor James DeLancey issued a [[royal charter]] to "The Governors of The College of The Province of New York in The City of New York in America"  which ordained the erection of "a College... which shall be called and Known by the Name of [[King's College]], for the Instruction and Education of Youth in the Learned Languages, and Liberal Arts and Sciences," in the name of [[King George II]].
 [[King's College]] was forced to close in [[1776]] when revolutionary troops commandeered [[College Hall]] as a barracks. When the British drove the continental army from New York, they appropriated [[College Hall]] for use as a hospital.
 After the revolution, Columbia was re-established by two significant Acts of legislature, referred to as the [[1784]] Charter, and the [[1787]] Charter. On May 1, [[1784]], when the legislature of New York State chartered the "Regents of the University of the State of New-York," it did so by transferring to it the powers, privileges, and property of the Governors of King's College, establishing "That the College within the City of New-York, heretofore called King's College, be forever hereafter called and known by the Name of COLUMBIA COLLEGE," and making Columbia College the first college in the state's university.
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 Thus was Columbia finally re-established as a private institution after the revolutionary war. Notably, Columbia is able to trace its founding to [[1754]] not just based on tradition, but through a legal line of succession, because the legislative act in [[1787]] forming the corporation did so by ratifying the 1754 Charter and then amending it.
 Finally, on [[March 23]], [[1810]], the state legislature hit the reset button one last time, amending the [[1787]] Charter in full through an act of legislature. As since amended by acts of legislature and the Courts of New York State, Columbia operates under these rules to this day. Amusingly, the 1810 Charter placed a cap on real estate purchases that the trustees could make. Unsurprisingly, Columbia got the state to eliminate the cap in [[1884]]. Less amusingly, the cap became the subject of litigation when a bequest of property from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phoenix was challenged as violating the limitation on property Columbia could own.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-AKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA911&ots=ky-On4U-gm&pg=PA897#v=onepage&f=false Phoenix v. Columbia College, 87 App. Div. 438, 84 N.Y.S. 897 (1st Dep't 1903) (aff. 179 N.Y. 592, 72 N.E. 1149).] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=uWZvLV-2KLMC&lpg=RA1-PA83&ots=yR7P2k0TZc&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false Summons and Complaint, Responsive Pleadings, Referee's Decisions, and Appellate Briefs)]</ref>

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 Thus was Columbia finally re-established as a private institution after the revolutionary war. Notably, Columbia is able to trace its founding to [[1754]] not just based on tradition, but through a legal line of succession, because the legislative act in [[1787]] forming the corporation did so by ratifying the 1754 Charter and then amending it.
-Finally, on [[March 23]], [[1810]], the state legislature hit the reset button one last time, amending the [[1787]] Charter in full through an act of legislature. As since amended by acts of legislature and the Courts of New York State, Columbia operates under these rules to this day. Amusingly, the 1810 Charter placed a cap on real estate purchases that the trustees could make. Unsurprisingly, Columbia got the state to eliminate the cap in [[1884]]. Less amusingly, the cap became the subject of litigation when a bequest of property from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phoenix was challenged as violating the limitation on property Columbia could own.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-AKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA911&ots=ky-On4U-gm&dq=%22wheelock%20property%22%20columbia&pg=PA897#v=onepage&q=%22wheelock%20property%22%20columbia&f=false Phoenix v. Columbia College, 87 App. Div. 438, 84 N.Y.S. 897 (1st Dep't 1903) (aff. 179 N.Y. 592, 72 N.E. 1149).] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=uWZvLV-2KLMC&lpg=RA1-PA83&ots=yR7P2k0TZc&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false Summons and Complaint, Responsive Pleadings, Referee's Decisions, and Appellate Briefs)]</ref>
+Finally, on [[March 23]], [[1810]], the state legislature hit the reset button one last time, amending the [[1787]] Charter in full through an act of legislature. As since amended by acts of legislature and the Courts of New York State, Columbia operates under these rules to this day. Amusingly, the 1810 Charter placed a cap on real estate purchases that the trustees could make. Unsurprisingly, Columbia got the state to eliminate the cap in [[1884]]. Less amusingly, the cap became the subject of litigation when a bequest of property from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phoenix was challenged as violating the limitation on property Columbia could own.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-AKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA911&ots=ky-On4U-gm&pg=PA897#v=onepage&f=false Phoenix v. Columbia College, 87 App. Div. 438, 84 N.Y.S. 897 (1st Dep't 1903) (aff. 179 N.Y. 592, 72 N.E. 1149).] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=uWZvLV-2KLMC&lpg=RA1-PA83&ots=yR7P2k0TZc&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false Summons and Complaint, Responsive Pleadings, Referee's Decisions, and Appellate Briefs)]</ref>
 Although the Trustees voted to change the name of the school from "Columbia College in the City of New York" to "Columbia University in the City of New York" in [[1896]] (and to rename the undergraduate "School of Arts" as "Columbia College"), the trustees themselves continued operate under the corporate name "Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York." In [[1912]], the trustees filed a petition in New York state court requesting an order to change the corporation's name. On [[July 17]], [[1912]], Judge Leonard A. Giegerich ordered that as of [[August 25]], [[1912]], the corporation name would be "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York."

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 Thus was Columbia finally re-established as a private institution after the revolutionary war. Notably, Columbia is able to trace its founding to [[1754]] not just based on tradition, but through a legal line of succession, because the legislative act in [[1787]] forming the corporation did so by ratifying the 1754 Charter and then amending it.
-Finally, on [[March 23]], [[1810]], the state legislature hit the reset button one last time, amending the [[1787]] Charter in full through an act of legislature. As since amended by acts of legislature and the Courts of New York State, Columbia operates under these rules to this day. Amusingly, the 1810 Charter placed a cap on real estate purchases that the trustees could make. Less amusingly, the cap became the subject of lengthy litigation when a bequest of property from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phoenix was challenged as violating the limitation on property Columbia could own.<ref>Phoenix v. Columbia College, 87 App. Div. 438, 84 N.Y.S. 897 (aff. 179 N.Y. 592 mem, 72 N.E. 1149 mem.) ([http://books.google.com/books?id=uWZvLV-2KLMC&lpg=RA1-PA83&ots=yR7P2k0TZc&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false Summons and Complaint, Responsive Pleadings, Referee's Decisions, and Appellate Briefs)]</ref> Unsurprisingly, Columbia got the state to eliminate the cap in [[1884]].
+Finally, on [[March 23]], [[1810]], the state legislature hit the reset button one last time, amending the [[1787]] Charter in full through an act of legislature. As since amended by acts of legislature and the Courts of New York State, Columbia operates under these rules to this day. Amusingly, the 1810 Charter placed a cap on real estate purchases that the trustees could make. Unsurprisingly, Columbia got the state to eliminate the cap in [[1884]]. Less amusingly, the cap became the subject of litigation when a bequest of property from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phoenix was challenged as violating the limitation on property Columbia could own.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-AKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA911&ots=ky-On4U-gm&dq=%22wheelock%20property%22%20columbia&pg=PA897#v=onepage&q=%22wheelock%20property%22%20columbia&f=false Phoenix v. Columbia College, 87 App. Div. 438, 84 N.Y.S. 897 (1st Dep't 1903) (aff. 179 N.Y. 592, 72 N.E. 1149).] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=uWZvLV-2KLMC&lpg=RA1-PA83&ots=yR7P2k0TZc&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false Summons and Complaint, Responsive Pleadings, Referee's Decisions, and Appellate Briefs)]</ref>
 Although the Trustees voted to change the name of the school from "Columbia College in the City of New York" to "Columbia University in the City of New York" in [[1896]] (and to rename the undergraduate "School of Arts" as "Columbia College"), the trustees themselves continued operate under the corporate name "Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York." In [[1912]], the trustees filed a petition in New York state court requesting an order to change the corporation's name. On [[July 17]], [[1912]], Judge Leonard A. Giegerich ordered that as of [[August 25]], [[1912]], the corporation name would be "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York."

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 == See also ==
 * [[University Statutes]]
 [[Category:University components]]