Stamp

An impression made by public authority, ip pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal proceedings, conveyances or contracts are required to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted. A small label or strip of paper, bearing a particular device, printed and sold by the government, and required to be attached M mail-matter, and to seme other articles sui Ject to duty or excise.

— Stamp acts. In English law. Acts regulat ing the stamps upon deeds, contracts, agreements, papers in law proceedings, bills and notes letters, receipts,' and other papers.

— Stamp duties. Duties imposed upon and raised from stamps upon parchment and paper, and forming a branch of the perpetual revenue of the kingdom. 1 Bl. Comm. 323.