1. Establishment, foundation, or organization created to pursue a particular type of endeavor, such as banking by a financial institution. 2. Consistent and organized pattern of behavior or activities (established by law or custom) that is self-regulating in accordance with generally accepted norms.
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make what is called the correspondence of the parties. 2. In general, the correspondence of the parties contains the best evidence of the facts to which it relates. See Letter, contracts; Proposal.
The Committees of Correspondence were the American coloniesâ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. In 1764, Boston formed the earliest Committee of Correspondence to encourage opposition to Britainâs stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of American paper money.