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letter 1 : a direct written statement addressed to an individual

letter of credit :a document issued to a beneficiary at the

Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the

Letters patent, is derived from Latin word 'literae patentes.' The letters

letter ruling : a ruling (as of a court or administrative

Letter-claus (liter' claus'), close letter, so called in contradistinction to letters-patent,

Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants

Letters of request: (1) The mode of commencing an original suit

Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with

Letter-missive. When a peer was made a defendant in the Court