Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Feemail
Slang. 1. An attorney's fee extorted by intimidation, threats, or pressure. 2. The act or process of extorting such a fee. Cf. BLACKMAIL; GRAYMAIL; GREENMAIL.
n. 1. One or more items that have been properly addressed, stamped with postage, and deposited 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 email or voicemail).
Mailable
adj. (Of a letter or package) lawful to send through a postal service.
Mailbox
ule. 1. Contracts. The principle that an acceptance becomes effective - and binds the offeror - once it has been properly mailed. ( The mailbox rule does not apply, however, if the offer provides that an acceptance is not effective until received. 2. The principle that when a pleading or other document is filed or served by mail, filing or service is deemed to have occurred on the date of mailing. ( The mailbox rule varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. For example, it sometimes applies only to certain types of filings, and it may apply when a party uses an overnight courier instead of U.S. mail.
Nonmailable
adj. Of or relating to a letter or parcel that cannot be transported by mail for a particular reason such as the package's size, contents, or obscene label.
blackmail suit
A suit filed by a party having no genuine claim but hoping to extract a favorable settlement from a defendant who would rather avoid the expenses and hassles of litigation. class suit. See CLASS ACTION.
blackmail suit.
See SUIT
blackmail,
n. A threatening demand made without justification; EXTORTION (1). - blackmail, ub. Cf. GRAYMAIL; GREENMAIL; FEEMAIL. "[Blackmail is] a certain rate of Money, Corn, Cattle, or other consideration, paid to some inhabiting upon, or near the borders, being persons of name and power, allied with . . . known Robbers . . . to be thereby by them freed and protected from the danger of those Spoiltakers." Thomas Blount, Nomo-Lexicon: A Law-Dictionary (1670). "'Black-mail' (black rent) was anciently used to indicate 'rents reserved in work, grain or baser money' (i.e. baser than silver). It was also employed at one time to refer to 'a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage.' [Quoting American College Dictionary (1948).] Such practice was extortion, in the literal sense, and hence 'blackmail' is frequently used to indicate statutory extortion or sometimes an extorsive threat. And the federal statute forbidding the sending of an extorsive threat by mail has been referred to as the 'blackmail statute.'" Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 451 (3d ed. 1982).
certified mail
Mail for which the sender requests proof of delivery in the form of a receipt signed by the addressee. ( The receipt (a green card, which is usu. referred to as such) must be signed before the mail will be delivered. - Also termed certified mail, return receipt requested.
A communication exchanged between people by computer, either through a local area network or the Internet.
graymail.
A criminal defendant's threat to reveal classified information during the trial in the hope of forcing the government to drop the criminal charge. Cf BLACKMAIL; GREENMAIL; FEEMAIL.
greenmail.
1. The act of buying enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover and then selling the stock back to the corporation at an inflated price. 2. The money paid for stock in the corporation's buyback. Cf. BLACKMAIL; FEEMAIL; GRAYMAIL. 3. A shareholder's act of filing or threatening to file a derivative action and then seeking a disproportionate settlement.
mail cover
A process by which the U.S. Postal Service provides a government agency with information on the face of an envelope or package (such as a postmark) for the agency's use in locating a fugitive, identifying a coconspirator, or obtaining other evidence necessary to solve a crime.
mail fraud
See FRAUD.
mail-order divorce
A divorce obtained by parties who are not physically present or domiciled in the jurisdiction purporting to grant the divorce. ( Such a divorce is not recognized in the United States because of the absence of the usual bases for jurisdiction.
registered mail
See MAIL.