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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...
Officer of the post office
Officer of the post office, the expression 'officer of the Post Office' includes any person employed in any business of the Post Office or on behalf of the Post Office. [Post Office Act, 1898, s. 2(e)]...
Office of the post office
Office of the post office, the expression includes any person employed in any business of the Post Office or on behalf of the Post Office. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898, s. 2(e)]...
Parcel post
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
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Inland
Inland, demesne land; that which was let to tenants being denominated outland (utland), Domesday.The expression used in relation to a postal article, means:(i) posted in India and addressed to any place in India or to any place for which a post office is established by the Central Government beyond the limits of India; or(ii) posted at any post office established by the Central Government beyond the limits of India and addressed to any place for which any such post office is established or to any place in India: Provided that the expression 'inland' shall not apply to any class of postal articles which may be specified in this behalf by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette, when posted in or at or addressed to any places of post offices which may be described in such notification. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(b)(i)(ii)]...
Possibility on a possibility
Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a possibility, which the law will not allow. Thus he tells us that the chance that a man and a woman, both married to different persons, shall themselves marry one another is but a common possibility. But the chance that a married man shall have a son named Geoffrey is stated to be a double or remote possibility; see Williams on Real Property; 2 Rep. 51 a; 10 Rep. 50 b; Co. Litt. 184 a. The idea that there cannot be a possibility and a possibility seems to have been a conceit invented by Popham, C.J., but it was never really intelligible, Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D p. 92, per Lindley, LJ, and never applied to trusts of personal estate [Re Bowles, (1902) 2 Ch 650]. It gave rise, however, to the rule, now well settled in regard to limitations and trusts of realty created by instruments comin...
Savings banks
Savings banks, institutions for the safe custody and increase of the small savings of the poor. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Savings Banks.' They are: (1) Trustee; (2) Post Office; (3) Military; (4) Statutory; (5) Uncontrolled.(1) Trustee Savings Banks are regulated by a long series of Acts (the Trustee Savings Banks Acts, 1861 to 1934), which provide that they must not be described in a manner which implies that the Government is responsible to depositors, that the money received must be paid to the Bank of England or Ireland and carried to an account kept in the names of the National Debt Commissioners, and that annual accounts must be sent to the Commissioners. An 'Inspection Committee,' estab-lished under the Savings Bank Act, 1891, has extensive powers of supervision for the purpose of detecting any breaches of the Acts or rules regulating a bank. Deposits by any depositor in more than one Trustee Savings Bank is prohibited, and the Treasury have power to limit the amount from one...
Public trustee
Public trustee. The office of Public Trustee was established by the (English) Public Trustee Act, 1906, which came into force on 1st January, 1908. The Public Trustee is a corporation sole, and may if he thinks fit act in the administration of estates of deceased persons if under one thousand pounds; act as custodian trustee [see that title, and Re Cherry's Trusts, (1914) 1 Ch 83]; act as an ordinary trustee; be appointed to be a judicial trustee (see that title); be appointed administrator of the property of a convict under the Forfeiture Act, 1870; and he may also be appointed an executor and obtain a grant of probate (s. 5). He may be appointed a trustee whether the trust instrument came into operation before or after the Act, and either as an original or a new trustee, or as an additional trustee, in the same cases and manner and by the same persons or Court as if he were a private trustee, with this addition--that he may be appointed sole trustee although the trustees originally a...
Postmaster-General
Postmaster-General. The head of the Post-office, whose appointment and powers are regulated by the (English) Post Office Acts, 1908 to 1920 and the (English) Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 15). He acts in a corporate capacity (Post Office Act, 1908, s. 33), and for the purpose of holding land is a corporation sole. See CORPORA-TION, s. 45, ibid. He is usually one of the Ministry, and may sit in the House of Commons (see 29 & 30 Vict. c. 55), and if an Assistant Postmaster-General is appointed he can sit and vote in the House of Commons by virtue of the Assistant Postmaster-General Act, 1909. There were two before 1822, when one was abolished....
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