II.   Instruments & Transactions

A Letter is a formal Instrument issued under the Scientiam Mysteria (Occult Knowledge) standards of instruments and writing first formed under King Henry VIII of England from the 16th Century as a form of written or printed communication proposing or granting or asserting one or more rights.

In general terms where a Letter is the mode of contract or agreement:

(i) The person who first makes a Letter as a proposal or demand to another in regards to a particular matter is called in the first instance the Offeror and the one to whom the Letter is addressed is called the Offeree; and

(ii) In relation to the Letter itself and any property attached to it, the nature of a Letter means the Offeror conveys and transfers possession and ownership of it to the intended recipient (the Offeree) as trustee; and

(iii) Upon receiving the Letter and any property attached to it, the Offeree has four rights of action in law: (a) to respond and fully Accept the Offer; or (b) to respond and conditionally Accept the Offer; or (c) to respond and Reject the Offer; or (d) to not respond; and

(iv) If the communication of the response of the Offeree is delayed by the fault of the Offeror, or by accident, the delay is not to be reckoned against the Offeree; and

(v) Unless a response from the Offeree is received explicitly giving notice in writing of the rejection of the proposal of the Offeror or notice in writing of conditionally accepting the proposal, then any answer in response may be reasonably argued as an acceptance; and

(vi) An unconditional acceptance by Letter is complete as against the Offeror from the date of posting the acceptance by the Offeree as Acceptor, if it arrives within the time of the letter proposed, or if no deadline specified then upon the normal course of business; and

(vii) If the Offeror has made provision within the Letter to account for not receiving an answer as soon as is requested, then it can be reasonably argued the proposal has been rejected or accepted. However, if no such provision is made, then such a presumption of rejection remains unproven; and

(viii) If the Offeree makes in writing a conditional acceptance to a Letter, then as a matter of law the roles are reversed and the original party who made the proposal now becomes the Offeree and the one responding on conditional acceptance becomes the Offeror. If the new Offeror makes provision in their counter Offer upon non response being acceptance by a certain time, then non response can be reasonably argued as full acceptance of the offer and conditions of the counter offer; and

(ix) The failure to open a Letter and write a rejection on the envelope, or write a rejection or other comment upon the Letter by the Offeree and return it does not constitute either a conditional acceptance or rejection, unless the Letter is also a Bill of Exchange. 

The most common forms of Letters in Law are

(i) Letter of Credit is an authority by one person (A.) to another (B.) to draw cheques or bills of exchange (with or without a limit as to amount) with an undertaking by A. to honor the drafts on presentation; and

(ii) Letter of License is an agreement between a debtor and his creditors that the latter shall for a specified time suspend their claims and allow the debtor to carry on his business at his own discretion; and

(iii) Letters of Administration is when a person possessed of personal property dies intestate, or without an executor, the Court having jurisdiction in such matters grants to a capable person an authority under the seal of the Court by which the grantee becomes clothed with the powers and duties similar to those of an executor; and

(iv) Letters Close are letters or missives in the name of the sovereign and sealed with the great seal, being directed to particular persons for particular purposes. They are closed up and sealed on the outside of the envelope so that it cannot be opened except by breaking the seal – hence their name; and

(v) Letters of Marque are extraordinary commissions issued under the laws of Admiralty either in time of open war or in time of peace, after all attempts to procure legal redress have failed, to the commanders of merchant ships authorizing reprisals for reparation of the damages sustained by them through enemies at sea; and

(vi) Letters Patent are grants by the crown of lands, franchises and offices contained in charters or instruments not sealed up but exposed to open view with the great seal pendant at the bottom and usually addressed to all the subjects of the realm.

In respect of a Letter of Credit:

(i) A Letter of Credit is in fact a proposal or request to the person named therein, or persons (of the corporation) generally, to advance money on the faith of it, and the advance constitute an acceptance of the proposal, thus making a contract between te giver of the Letter of Credit and the person cashing or negotiating the draft by which the former is bound to honor the draft; and

(ii) An Ordinary Letter of Credit contains the name of the person (A’s correspondent) by whom the drafts are to be negotiated or cashed. An Open Letter of Credit is addressed to the institution generally.

In respect of a Letter of License:

(i) Such an instrument usually includes a provision that the business shall be carried on under the inspection and control of persons nominated by the creditors, who are then called Inspectors with such agreement then being formalized and executed under a Deed of Inspection; and

(ii) The purpose of such an instrument is to forestall and avoid any bankruptcy proceeding.

In respect of Letters of Marque:

(i) All validly claimed Letters of Marque or commissions otherwise named having the same form and effect are peculiar to Admiralty Law and no other; and

(ii) Letters of Marque were issued under two types being special – to make reparation to individuals, or general – to make reparations for a state or company acting as a body politic; and

(iii) When a state issues general Letters of Marque, this is conclusively and irrefutably regarded as privateering and is considered morally repugnant, unlawful and illegal; and

(iv) When a company or corporation acting as a pseudo body politic claims the right to issue general Letters of Marque, this is conclusively and irrefutably regarded as pirating and is not only morally repugnant, unlawful and illegal, but considered the gravest threat to the laws of trade, property and nations and all civilized people; and

(v) The issuing of Letters of Marque by a state or a company or corporation acting as a pseudo body politic is the gravest act of perfidy and treason, rendering those officials directly and indirectly involved wholly without authority, office, commission or standing in law.