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From: mat@hou4b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: A new topic, perhaps ...
Message-ID: <1115@hou4b.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:07:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:07:33 1984
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I've been under the impression that if someone sends you something
in the mail, it cannot place you under any obligation to reply
or return or ... unless of course an obligation exists beforehand (eg
you receive a bill for something that you bought last month ...)
I also understood that this was a provision of Federal law and as such
would supersede all state law.

I received a letter from my church today.  In the typical style of
Catholic parishes, we are supporting our school with gambling: weekly bingo
and twice-a-year raffles.  I have in front of me an envelope with 12 chances
and a letter.  The letter ends with

``N.B.   New Jersey State law requires that all chances, sold or unsold,
         be returned.''

Now this would suggest that I have been placed under obligation to return
these (by virtue of State law) where U.S. law seems to forbid any such
obligation from being served on me in this fashion.

Does anyone know the real scoop?  If I fail to return these, who is in
violation of what law ??  (General complaints about Catholiscism, churches,
religion, etc, should be sent to /dev/null.)
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