mailbox rule

mailbox rule definition - legal

n

  1. The rule that the acceptance of a contract is effective upon being mailed, unless the contract provides otherwise.
  2. In litigation, the rule that a pleading is served as of the date it is mailed.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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