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Mail bag, the expression includes a bag, box, parcel or any other envelope or covering in which postal article in course of transmission by post are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain any such article. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (c)]...
Mail [fr. malle, Fr., a trunk], a bag of letters carried by the post, or the vehicle which carries the letters. As to theft, embezzlement by Post Office officer, or receiving mail bag, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), ss. 12, 18, 33 and (English) Post Office Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 48), ss. 50, 52, 55. Also, armour.Mail, 1. One or more items that have been properly addressed, stamped with postage, and deported for delivery in the postal system. 2. An official system for delivering such items; the postal system. 3. One or more written or oral messages sent electronically (e.g., through e-mail or voicemail), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963...
mailing list
A list of names and addresses to which advertising solicitations of money or other materials material sent in large quantities is mailed it is usually used by comercial or charitable organizations Mailing lists are often sold by organizations to other organizations and are frequently used for targeted mailing i e mailing to groups of people who are more likely htan the general population to respond as desired to the message in the mail...
mail call
A call of the names of those persons receiving mail for the purpose of transmitting mail to them a technique used in the military services to deliver mail to enlisted personnel...
Petty-bag Office
Petty-bag Office, an office belonging to the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for suits for and against solicitors and officers of that Court, and for process and proceedings by extents on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum scire facias to repel letters-patent, etc., Termes de la Ley. The term is derived from the little bag (parva baga) in which original writs relating to the business of the Crown were anciently kept.By the Great Seal Offices Abolition Act, 1884, s. 5, provision was made for the abolition of the office of Clerk of the Petty Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist.The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery is now transferred to the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 18(2)(b)], replacing (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 16).Pew [fr. puye, Dut.; appui, Fr.], an enclosed seat in a church. It is some what in the nature of an heirloom, and may descend by immemorial ...
mail carrier
A person who delivers the mail also called a letter carrier A male mail carrier is also called a mailman...
mail order buying
The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs advertisements on the web etc and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail telephone or internet connection...
Black mail
Black mail [fr. maille, Fr., a small piece of money], a certain rent of money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence and allied with robbers and brigands, for protection from the devastations of the latter. It was in fact a species of insurance. This was rendered illegal by 43 Eliz. C. 13. The same practice prevailed in Scotland, where it was also illegal. Also rent paid in cattle, otherwise called neat-gild; and all rents not paid in silver are called reditus nigri (black mail or rents), by way of distinction from reditus albi (blanch-firmes, or white-rents).But the term is used in modern times to signify extortion of money by threatening letters or threats to accuse of crime--an offence punishable, if the crime is punishable, by death or penal servitude for not less than seven years, or be an attempt at rape, or be an 'infamous crime,' i.e., sodomy, etc., by penal servitude for life, and in the case of a male under sixteen...
bagful
The quantity that a bag will hold as he ate a bagful of popcorn...
mail fraud
mail fraud see fraud ...
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