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Postal articles, the expression includes a letter, postcard, newspaper, book, pattern or sample packet, parcel and every article or thing transmissible by post. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (i)]...
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)]...
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...
Mail bag
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)]...
Postage stamp
Postage stamp, the expression means any stamp provided by the Central Government for denoting postage or other fees or sums payable in respect of postal articles under this Act, and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on any envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (g)]...
Secret
Secret. A solicitor, and it is presumed also a barrister, is bound by law not to disclose his client's secrets, and the same rule does not appear to apply as between medical men and their patients, see as to this Chitty on Contracts, and Kitson v. Playfair, Times, 28th March, 1896. As to privileged communica-tions, however, the privilege is that of the client, not of the solicitor. The clerk of a professional or business man is under an implied contract not to disclose professional or trade secrets which he has learned in the course of his employment, Merryweather v. Moore, (1892) 2 Ch 518; Amber Size and Chemical Co., Ltd. v. Menzel, (1913) 2 Ch 239.As to official secrets, see that title; and as to secrets of the confessional, see CONFESSION.As to secret commission, corruptly taken by an agent from the party with whom he is employed by his principal to transact business for such principal, see COMMISSION; CORRUPT PRACTICES.To secrete means, according to the dictionary 'to hide' in con...
Secrete
Secrete, defined in connection with a postal article addressed to some person, the fact that it is retained in his possession by an officer of the post office in an almirah and that too for an inordinately long period would be tantamount to hiding that article. Of course, what act amounts to 'secreting' would necessarily depend upon the facts of each case, Radha Kishan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 822: (1963) (Supp) 1 SCR 408: (1963) All LJ 397: (1963) All WR (HC) 304: (1963) All Cr 156: (1963) BLJR 353: (1963) 1 LLJ 667....
Postage
Postage, the duty or charge imposed on letters or parcels conveyed by post. See POST OFFICE.The expression means the duty chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (f)]...
Postal
Belonging to the post office or mail service as postal arrangements postal authorities...
Postal Convention
Postal Convention, a treaty made at Berne in October, 1874, for the regulation of rates of postage and matters connected with the Post Office, between England and various other countries. See 38 & 39 Vict. c. 22, now repealed by the (English) Post Office Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 48). See now (English) Post Office Acts, 1908-1935, and 45 & 46 Vict. c. 74, ss. 14 and 15....
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