Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou4b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!hou4b!mat 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 Article-I.D.: hou4b.1115 Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:07:33 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 05:09:15 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 27 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.) -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape .. dig ) hou5d!mat ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*. (soon hou4b!mat)