PACKAGE

A package means a bundle put up for tra,nsportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as, such, an· article of merchandise or delivery from hand to hand. A parcel is a small package; "parcel" being the diminutive of "package." Each of the words denotes a, thing in form suitable for transportation or handling, or sale from hand to hand. U. S. v. Gold back, 1 Hughes, 529, Fed. Oas. Ne. 15,222; Haley v. State, 42 Neb. 556, 60 N. W. 962, 47 Am. St. Rep. 718; State v. Parsons, 124 Mo. 436, 27 S. · W. 1102, 46 Am. St. Rep. 457. "Package," in old English law, signifies one of various duties charged in the port of London on the goods imported and exported by aliens, or by denizens the SOill!I of aliens. Tomlins. --Original package. See [s. 873]