due posting. 1. The stamping and placing of letters or packages in the U.S. mail. [Cases: Postal Service 15. C.J.S. Postal Service and Offenses Against Postal Laws §§ 18–19.] 2. The proper entry of an item into a ledger. 3. Proper publication; proper placement of an item (such as an announcement) in a particular place, […]
posting. 1. Accounting. The act of transferring an original entry to a ledger. 2. The act of mailing a letter. 3. A method of substituted service of process by displaying the process in a prominent place (such as the courthouse door) when other forms of service have failed. See SERVICE(1). [Cases: Process 81. C.J.S. Process
at the courthouse door. (Of the posting of a notice of judicial sale, etc.) on the courthouse door, or in direct proximity to the door, as on a bulletin board that is located just outside the door and that is regularly used for the posting of legal notices. • Some statutes may specify that the
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waste book. A merchant’s book for making rough entries of transactions before posting them into a journal. — Also termed blotter.
The release of a defendant in a criminal case in which the court takes the defendant’s word that he or she will appear for a scheduled matter or when told to appear. • This type of release dispenses with the necessity of the person’s posting money or having a surety sign a bond with the
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salvam fecit totius pignoris causam (sal-v[schwa]m fee-sit toh-shee-[schwa]s pig-n[schwa]-ris kaw-z[schwa]m). [Law Latin] Scots law. He furnished the means of saving the whole pledge. • On this basis a bottomry creditor posting the last bond obtained preference over the remaining bottomry creditors. See bottomry bond under BOND(2).
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seizure, n. The act or an instance of taking possession of a person or property by legal right or process; esp., in constitutional law, a confiscation or arrest that may interfere with a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy. [Cases: Arrest 68(4); Searches and Seizures 13. 1. C.J.S. Arrest § 45; Searches and Seizures§§ 8, 13,
viis et modis (vI-is et moh-dis). [Latin] Eccles. law. By all ways and means. • In ecclesiastical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et modis is equivalent to substituted service in temporal courts. It requires posting of a notice where a person is likely to be found. This type of service is contrasted
recognizance (ri-kog-n[schwa]-z[schwa]nts). 1. A bond or obligation, made in court, by which a person promises to perform some act or observe some condition, such as to appear when called, to pay a debt, or to keep the peace; specif., an in-court acknowledgment of an obligation in a penal sum, conditioned on the performance or nonperformance
handbill. A written or printed notice displayed, handed out, or posted, usu. to inform interested people of an event or of something to be done. • Posting and distribution of handbills is regulated by ordinance or statute in most localities.