Dead Letter Law and Legal Definition
Dead letter is a law that becomes inoperative a while after its initiation. The law will be still in effect. However, it cannot be enforced because of change in circumstances. Dead letter shows a state when a statute has outlived its relevance.
Dead letter also means an unclaimed or undelivered letter that is eventually destroyed or returned to the sender by the postal service. Usually, it is termed as undelivered letter.
