Legal Definition and Related Resources of Advertisement
Meaning of Advertisement
(Lat. advertere, to turn to). Information or knowledge communicated to individuals or the public in a manner designed to attract general attention. A notice published either in handbills or in a newspaper. A posting of notice on a signboard is an advertisement within a statute making the advertising of lottery tickets penal. 5 Pick. (Mass.) 42. And see 8 Watts & S. (Pa.) 373; 16 Pa. St. 68; 38 111. App. 400.
What does Advertisement mean in American Law?
The definition of Advertisement in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
See advertise.
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Advertisement
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early 15c., “written statement calling attention to (something), public notice” (of anything, but often of a sale); from Old French avertissement (15c., later respelled pedantically as advertissement, a change rejected in French but accepted in English), from stem of avertir “to turn, direct, make aware” (see advertise). Meaning “public notice (usually paid) in a newspaper or other publication,” the main modern sense, emerged 1580s and was fully developed by 18c.; later extended to Web sites. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a washball that had a quality truly wonderful–it gave an exquisite edge to the razor! … The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. [Johnson, “The Idler,” Jan. 20, 1758]
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