Parcel Post - Law Dictionary Search Results
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That branch of the post office having to do with the collection transmission and delivery of parcels4 The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883 The rates in 1913 dating from 1897 were 3d for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds A general parcel post was established in the United States by Act of August 24 1912 which took effect Jan 1 1913 At that time parcels could not exceed 11 pounds in weight nor 72 inches in length and girth combined Provision is made from insuring parcels and also for sending parcels COD The rates of postage vary with the distance See Zone below...
Post office
Post office, the expression 'post office' includes every house, building, room, carriage or place used for the purposes of the Post Office, and every letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles. [(Indian) Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(h)]The Government service of the carriage of letters, first established in 1643. Regulated by statutes 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 33; 1 & 2 Vict. cc. 97, 98; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (the Post Office (Duties) Act, 1840, which established penny postage), and many other Acts, which are consolidated by the Post Office Act, 1908, as amended by subsequent Acts. Besides its monopoly in respect of letters, telegraphs and wireless telegraphy (q.v.) and telephones (q.v.), it carries on the business of a carrier of parcels, a savings bank, life assurance, the transmission of money by postal orders and money orders, and pays old age pensions. See also (English) Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920; (English) Post Office (Parcels) Act, 192...
Packed parcels
Packed parcels, the name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones (each bearing a different address) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor (a carrier), who unites them into one for his own profit at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together. The charging by a railway company of a higher rate for 'packed' than other parcels has been determined frequently to be illegal, see G.W. Ry. Co. v. Sutton, (1869) LR 4 HL 226....
Larger parcel
Larger parcel, means a portion of land that is not a complete parcel, but is the greater part of an even bigger tract, entitling the owner both to damages for the parcel taken and for severance from the larger tract. To grant both kinds of damages a court generally requires the owner to show unity of ownership unity of use, and contiguity of the land of the land. But some states and the federal courts do not require contiguity when there is strong evidence of unity of use, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 886....
Package or parcel
Package or parcel, means the singular and not the plural, and it contemplates each individual 'parcel' or 'package', Radha Krishna Nathani v. Union of India, AIR 1957 Pat 231: (1957) Pat LR 63....
Parcel
Parcel, the legal term for a part of land, defined for the purposes of a search under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, by Rule 16 of the (English) Local Land Charges Rules, 1927, S.R. & O., 1927, No. 869 L. 33, as land or buildings in separate occupation or separately rated at the time of search (see the Rules).Means goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage by a passenger or a parcel train. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (27) ]...
Parcel makers
Parcel makers, two officers in the Exchequer who formerly made the parcels of the escheators' accounts, wherein they charged them with everything they had levied for the sovereign's use within the time of their being in office, and delivered the same to the auditors to make up their accounts therewith, Prac. Exch....
Parcels, Bill of
Parcels, Bill of, an account of the items composing a parcel or package of goods, transmitted with them to the purchaser....
Post-dated cheque
Post-dated cheque, are not invalid, but the banker should not pay such a cheque if presented before the date it bears. If therefore, a cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the banker knows it to be post-dated, and even if it has been presented before the date and refused payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 3(1), p. 143.Means a cheque must not be post-dated, that is, dated after the day on which it is presented for payment to the drawee branch. Post-dated cheques present for more difficulties to the banker than antedated cheques. There are practical difficulties rather than legal ones ..... But a cheque is generally post-dated because the drawer does not expect to have the funds to meet it until that date arrives. It is a mandate to the banker to the effect that it should not be paid before that...
Officiating continuously in a senior post
Officiating continuously in a senior post, the ex-pression 'officiated continuously in a senior post' in Rule 3(3)(b) of the Seniority Rules is to be constructed to mean holding a senior post on officiating basis prior to substantive appointment on such senior post. Since a person cannot be treated as officiating on a post after he has been substantively appointed on that post, the said expression cannot be construed as referring to the period of officiation subsequent to the date of substantive appointment, O.S. Singh v. Union of India, (1996) 7 SCC 37 (44). [I.P.S. (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1954]...
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