Advertise

To publish notice of; to publish a written or printed account of. 39 Hi. App. 401. ADVERTISEMENT (Lat. advertere, to turn to). Information or knowledge communicated to individuals or the public in a manner designed to attract general attention. A notice published either in handbills or in a newspaper. A posting of notice on a signboard is an advertisement within a statute making the advertising of lottery tickets penal. 5 Pick. (Mass.) 42. And see 8 Watts & S. (Pa.) 373; 16 Pa. St. 68; 38 111. App. 400. ADVERTISEMENTS OF QUEEN ELIZAbeth. Certain articles or ordinances drawn up by Archbishop Parker and some of the bishops in 1564, at the request of Queen Elizabeth, the object of which was to enforce decency and uniformity in the ritual of the church. The queen subsequently refused to give her official sanction to these advertisements, and left them to be enforced by the bishops under their general powers. Phil. Ecc. Law, 910; 2 Prob. Div. 276; Id. 354.