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Dictionary Results for letter:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
letter
    n 1: a written message addressed to a person or organization;
         "mailed an indignant letter to the editor" [syn: letter,
         missive]
    2: the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent
       speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" [syn:
       letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character]
    3: owner who lets another person use something (housing usually)
       for hire
    4: a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the
       intention); "he followed instructions to the letter"; "he
       obeyed the letter of the law"
    5: an award earned by participation in a school sport; "he won
       letters in three sports" [syn: letter, varsity letter]
    v 1: win an athletic letter
    2: set down or print with letters
    3: mark letters on or mark with letters

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Letter \Let"ter\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]r), n. [From Let to permit.]
   One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Letter \Let"ter\, n. [From Let to hinder.]
   One who retards or hinders. [Archaic.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Letter \Let"ter\, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L.
   littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing,
   literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub
   over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by
   graving the characters upon tablets smeared over or covered
   with wax. --Pliny, xiii. 11. See Liniment, and cf.
   Literal.]
   1. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound,
      or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a
      first element of written language.
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            And a superscription also was written over him in
            letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. --Luke
                                                  xxiii. 38.
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   2. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in
      intelligible characters on something adapted to
      conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
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            The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and
            natural.                              --Walsh.
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   3. A writing; an inscription. [Obs.]
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            None could expound what this letter meant.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   4. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact
      signification or requirement.
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            We must observe the letter of the law, without doing
            violence to the reason of the law and the intention
            of the lawgiver.                      --Jer. Taylor.
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            I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   5. (Print.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of
      type.
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            Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing
            house, and that famous letter so much esteemed.
                                                  --Evelyn.
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   6. pl. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
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   7. pl. A letter; an epistle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   8. (Teleg.) A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent
      at rates lower than the standard message rate in
      consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to
      priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams
      are called by the Western Union Company day letters, or
      night letters according to the time of sending, and by
      The Postal Telegraph Company day lettergrams, or night
      lettergrams.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   Dead letter, Drop letter, etc. See under Dead, Drop,
      etc.

   Letter book, a book in which copies of letters are kept.

   Letter box, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed
      or delivered.

   Letter carrier, a person who carries letters; a postman;
      specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters
      to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects
      letters to be mailed.

   Letter cutter, one who engraves letters or letter punches.
      

   Letter lock, a lock that can not be opened when fastened,
      unless certain movable lettered rings or disks forming a
      part of it are in such a position (indicated by a
      particular combination of the letters) as to permit the
      bolt to be withdrawn.
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            A strange lock that opens with AMEN.  --Beau. & Fl.

   Letter paper, paper for writing letters on; especially, a
      size of paper intermediate between note paper and
      foolscap. See Paper.

   Letter punch, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the
      end, used in making the matrices for type.

   Letters of administration (Law), the instrument by which an
      administrator or administratrix is authorized to
      administer the goods and estate of a deceased person.

   Letter of attorney, Letter of credit, etc. See under
      Attorney, Credit, etc.

   Letter of license, a paper by which creditors extend a
      debtor's time for paying his debts.

   Letters close or Letters clause (Eng. Law.), letters or
      writs directed to particular persons for particular
      purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; --
      distinguished from letters patent. --Burrill.

   Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and
      sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has
      regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon,
      etc.

   Letters patent, Letters overt, or Letters open (Eng.
      Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and
      authority are granted to a person to do some act, or enjoy
      some right; as, letters patent under the seal of England.
      The common commercial patent is a derivative form of
      such a right.

   Letter-sheet envelope, a stamped sheet of letter paper
      issued by the government, prepared to be folded and sealed
      for transmission by mail without an envelope.

   Letters testamentary (Law), an instrument granted by the
      proper officer to an executor after probate of a will,
      authorizing him to act as executor.

   Letter writer.
      (a) One who writes letters.
      (b) A machine for copying letters.
      (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of
          letters.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Letter \Let"ter\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lettered
   (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lettering.]
   To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a
   book gilt and lettered.
   [1913 Webster] letter bomb

6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Attorney \At*tor"ney\, n.; pl. Attorneys. [OE. aturneye, OF.
   atorn['e], p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus,
   fr. attornare. See Attorn.]
   1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.]
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            And will have no attorney but myself. --Shak.
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   2. (Law)
      (a) One who is legally appointed by another to transact
          any business for him; an attorney in fact.
      (b) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and
          defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
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   Note: An attorney is either public or private. A private
         attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed
         by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to
         transact any business for him out of court; but in a
         more extended sense, this class includes any agent
         employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for
         another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a
         practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to
         prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the
         retainer of clients. --Bouvier. -- The attorney at law
         answers to the procurator of the civilians, to the
         solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the
         ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and all of these
         are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In
         Great Britain and in some states of the United States,
         attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the
         business of the former is to carry on the practical and
         formal parts of the suit. In many states of the United
         States however, no such distinction exists. In England,
         since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute called
         solicitors.
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   A power, letter, or warrant, of attorney, a written
      authority from one person empowering another to transact
      business for him.
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7. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Letter
   in Rom. 2:27, 29 means the outward form. The "oldness of the
   letter" (7:6) is a phrase which denotes the old way of literal
   outward obedience to the law as a system of mere external rules
   of conduct. In 2 Cor. 3:6, "the letter" means the Mosaic law as
   a written law. (See WRITING.)
   

8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LETTER, com. law, Crim. law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, 
usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to 
another. 
     2. A letter is always presumed to be sealed, unless the presumption be 
rebutted. 1 Caines, R. 682. 1 
     3. This subject will be considered by 1st. Taking a view of the law 
relating to the transmission of letters through the post office; and, 2. The 
effect of letters in making contracts. 3. The ownership of letters sent and 
received. 
     4.-1. Letters are, commonly sent through the post office, and the law 
has carefully provided for their conveyance through the country, and their 
delivery to the persons to whom they are addressed. The act to reduce into 
one the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department, 
section 21, 3 Story's Laws United States, 1991, enacts, that if any person 
employed in any of the departments of the post office establishment, shall 
unlawfully detain, delay, or open, any letter, packet, bag, or mail of 
letters, with which he shall be entrusted, or which shall have come to his 
possession, and which are intended to be conveyed by post or, if any such 
person shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy, any letter or packet entrusted 
to such person as aforesaid, and which shall not contain any security for, 
or assurance relating to money, as hereinafter described, every such 
offender, being thereof duly convicted, shall, for every such offence, be 
fined, not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisoned, not exceeding six 
months, or both, according to the circumstances and aggravations of the 
offence. And if any person, employed as aforesaid, shall secrete, embezzle, 
or destroy any letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters, with which he or she 
shall be entrusted, or which shall have come to his or her possession, and 
are intended to be conveyed by post, containing any bank notes, or bank post 
bill, bill of exchange, warrant of the treasury of the United States, note 
of assignment of stock in the funds, letters of attorney for receiving 
annuities or dividends, or for, selling stock in the funds, or for receiving 
the interest thereof, or any letter of credit, or note for, or relating to, 
payment of moneys or any bond, or warrant, draft, bill, or promissory note, 
covenant, contract, or agreement whatsoever, for, or relating to, the 
payment of money, or the delivery of any article of value, or the 
performance of any act, matter, or thing, or any receipt, release, 
acquittance, or discharge of, or from, any debt; covenant, or demand, or any 
part thereof, or any copy of any record of any judgment or decree, in any 
court of law or chancery, or any execution which way may have issued 
thereon; or any copy of any other record, or any other article of value, or 
any writing representing the same or if any such person, employed as 
aforesaid, shall steal, or take, any of the same out of any letter, packet, 
bag, or mail of letters, that shall come to his or her possession, such 
person shall, on conviction for any such offence, be imprisoned not less 
than ten years, nor exceeding twenty-one years; and if any person who shall 
have taken charge of the mails of the United States, shall quit or desert 
the same before such person delivers it into the post office kept at the 
termination of the route, or some known mail carrier, or agent of the 
general post office, authorized to receive the same, every such person, so 
offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, 
for every such offence; and if any person concerned in carrying the mail of 
the United States, shall collect, receive, or carry any letter, or packet, 
or shall cause or procure the same to be done, contrary, to this act, every 
such offender shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum, not 
exceeding fifty dollars. 
     5.-2. Most contracts may be formed by correspondence; and cases not 
unfrequently arise where it is difficult to say whether the concurrence of 
the will of the contracting parties took place or not. In order to form a 
contract both parties must concur at the same time, or there is no 
agreement. Suppose, for example, that Paul of Philadelphia, is desirous of 
purchasing a thousand bales of cotton, and offers by letter to Peter of New 
Orleans, to buy them from him at a certain price; but on the next day he 
changes his mind, and then he writes to Peter that he withdraws his offer; 
or on the next day he dies; in either case, there is no contract, because 
Paul did not continue in the same disposition to buy the cotton, at the time 
that his offer was accepted. The precise moment when the consent of both 
parties is perfect, is, in strictness, when the person who made the offer 
becomes acquainted with the fact that it has been accepted. But this may be 
presumed from circumstances. The acceptance must be of the same precise 
terms without any variance whatever. 4 Wheat. 225; see 1 Pick. 278; 10 Pick. 
326; 6 Wend. 103. 
     6.-3. A letter received by the person to whom it is directed, is the 
qualified property of such person: but where it is of a private nature, the 
receiver has no right to publish it without the consent of the writer, 
unless under very extraordinary circumstances; as, for example, when it is 
requisite to the defence of the character of the party who received it. 2 
Ves. & B. 19; 2 Atk. 542; Amb. 737; 1 Ball. & B. 207; 1 Mart. (Lo.) R. 297; 
Denisart, verbo Lettres Missives. Vide Dead Letter; Jeopardy; Mail; 
Newspaper; Postage; Post Master General. 



9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LETTER, contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, 
locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets 
it out to another for hire or compensation. See Hire; Locator; Conductor; 
Story on Bailm. Sec. 369. 
     2. According to the French and civil law, in virtue of the contract, 
the letter of a thing to hire impliedly engages that the hirer shall have 
the full use and enjoyment of the thing hired, and that he will fulfill his 
own engagements and trusts in respect to it, according to the original 
intention of the parties. This implies an obligation to deliver the thing to 
the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer 
during the period of the bailment; to do no act which shall deprive the 
hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and possession to the hirer, to 
enable him to use the thing or to perform the service; to keep the thing in 
suitable order and repair for the purpose of the bailment; and finally to 
warrant the thing from from any fault inconsistent with the use of it. These 
are the main obligations deduced from the nature of the contract, and they 
seem generally founded on unexceptionable reasoning. Pothier, Louage, n. 53; 
Id. n. 217; Domat, B. 1, tit. 4, Sec. 3 Code Civ. of L. tit. 9, c. 2, s. 2. 
It is difficult to say how far (reasonable as they are in a general sense) 
these obligations are recognized in the common law. In some respects the 
common law certainly differs. See Repairs; Dougl. 744, 748; 1 Saund. 321, 
32e, and ibid. note 7; 4 T. R. 318; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 980 et seq. 



10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LETTER, civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law 
which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or 
epistles. See Rescripts. 



11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LETTER missive, Engl. law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or 
peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord 
chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the 
defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, 
places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other 
defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue. Newl. Pr. 9; 2 
Madd. Ch. Pr. 196; Coop. Eq. Pl. 16. 



12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LETTER of RECALL. A written document addressed by the executive of one 
government to the executive of another, informing the latter that a minister 
sent by the former to him, has been recalled. 



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