ADVERTISEMENT. Information or knowl edge communicated to individuals or the lic in a manner designed to attract general attention.
A notice published in handbills, placards, a newspaper, etc.; cited in Darst v. Doom, 38 Ill. App. 397.
The law in many instances requires par ties to advertise in order to give notice of acts which are to be done ; in these cases, the advertisement is in general equivalent to notice. But there are cases in which such notice is not sufficient, unless brought home to the actual knowledge of the party. Thus, notice of the dissolution of partner ship by advertisement in a newspaper print ed in the place where the business is carried on, although it is of itself notice to all per sons who have had no previous dealings with the firm, yet is not notice to those who have had such previous dealings ; it must be shown that persons of the latter class have received actual notice; Watkinson v. Bank, 4 Wharf,. (Pa.) 484, 34 Am. Dec. 521. See Vernon v. Manhattan Co., 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 526; id., 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 183; Lind. Part. *222; Mauldin v. Bank, 2 Ala. 502 ; Hutchins v. Bank, 8 Humphr. (Tenn.) 418; 3 Bingh. 2. It has been held that the printed condi tions of a line of public coaches are suffi ciently made known to passengers by being posted up at the place where they book their names; Whitesell v. Crane, 8 W. & S. (Pa.)
373; 3 Esp. 271. An advertisement by a rail road corporation in a newspaper in the Eng lish language, of a limitation of its liability for baggage is not notice to a passenger who does not understand English ; Camden & A. R. Co. v. Baldauf, 16 Pa. 68, 55 Am. Dec. 481.
An ordinary advertising sheet is not a newspaper for the purpose of advertisement as required by law, and when notice is re quired to be published in two newspapers, English papers are presumed to be intended ; Tyler v. Bowen, 1 Pittsb. (Pa.) 225; the posting up of a page of a newspaper, con taining a large number of separate adver tisements, will not be considered a handbill ; Clark v. Chambers, 1 Pittsb. (Pa.) 224.
When an advertisement contains the terms of sale, or description of the property to be sold, it will bind the seller. ? Advertisements published bone fide for the apprehension of a person suspected of crime, or for the prevention of fraud, are privileg ed; Heard, Lib. & Sland. § 131.
A sign-board, at a person's place of busi ness, giving notice of lottery-tickets being for sale there, is an "advertisement"; Com. 5 Pick. (Mass.) 42.
See NOTICE ; FLAG.