Mailing Address - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mailing addressmailing address
The postal address where a maile can be addressed to a person or organization...
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 [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...
box number
the mailing address to which answers to a newspaper ad can be sent...
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...
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...
Indorsement of Address
Indorsement of Address. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IV., it is provided that the solicitor of a plaintiff suing by a solicitor shall indorse upon every writ of summons the address of the plaintiff, and also his own name or firm and place of business, and also, if his place of business shall be more than three miles from the Royal Courts of Justice, another proper place, to be called his address for service, which shall not be more than three miles from the Royal Courts, where writs, notices, etc., may be left for him; and that if he be agent of another solicitor, he shall add the name or firm and place of business of the principal solicitor. See SUMMONS...
mail fraud
mail fraud see fraud ...
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