A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
As applied to the post-office, this term means the carriage of letters, whether applied to the bag into which they are put, tie coach or vellicle by means of which they are transported, or any other means employed for their carriage and delivery by public authority.
6 Daly, 560.
It may also denote the letters or other matter so carried. The term “mail,” as used in Rev. St. U. B. § 5469, relative to robbing the mails, may Tean either the whole body of matter transported by the pustal agents, or any lelfer or package forming a component pari of it, 41 Fed. Kep. 130. Mail also denotes armor, a3 in the phrase a “coat of mail.” In Scotch law. Rent; a rent or tribute.