Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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POST-FINE. In old conveyancing. A fine or sum of money, (otherwise called the "king's silver") formerly due on granting the licentia concordandi, or leave to agree, in levying a fine of lands. It amounted to three-twentieths of the supposed annual value of the land, or ten shillings for every five marks of land. 2 Bl. Comm. 350. POSTHAC. Lat. After this; after this time; hereafter. POST LITEM MOTAM. Lat. After suit moved or commenced. Depositions in rela tion to the subject of a suit, made after liti gation has commenced, are sometimes so termed. 1 Starkie, Ev. 319. POST-MARK. A stamp or mark put on letters received at the post-office for transmis sion through the mails. POST-MORTEM. After death. A term generally applied to an autopsy or examina tion of a dead body, to ascertain the cause of death, or to the inquisition for that purpose by the coroner. P O S T NATUS. Born afterwards. A term applied by old writers to a second or younger son. It is used in private interna tional law to designate a person who was born after some historic event, (such as the American Revolution or the act of union be tween England and Scotland,) and whose rights or status will be governed or affected by the question of his birth before or after such event. POST-NOTES. A species of bank-notes payable at a distant period, and not on de mand. They are a species of obligation resorted to by banks when the exchanges of the country, and es pecially of the banks, have become embarrassed by excessive speculations. Much concern is then felt for the country, and through the newspapers it is urged that post-notes be issued by the banks "for aiding domestic and foreign exchanges," as a "mode of relief, "or a "remedy for the distress," and "to take the place of the southern and foreign exchanges. " And so presently this is done. Post notes are therefore intended to enter into the cir culation of the country as a part of its medium of exchanges; the smaller ones for ordinary business, and the larger ones for heavier operations. They are intended to supply the place of demand notes, which the banks cannot afford to issue or reissue, to relieve the necessities of commerce or of the banks, or to avoid a compulsory suspension. They are under seal, or without seal, and at long or shorl dates, at more or less interest, or without inter est, as the necessities of the bank may require. 22 Pa. St. 488. POST-NUPTIAL. After marriage. Thus, an agreement entered into by a father

POST. Lat. After; occurring in a report or a text-book, Is used to send the reader to a subsequent part of the book. POST. A conveyance for letters or dis patches. The word is derived from "positi," the horses carrying the letters or dispatches being kept or placed at fixed stations. The word is also applied to the person who con veys the letters to the houses where lie takes up and lays down his charge, and to the stages or distances between house and house. Hence the phrases, post-boy, post-horse, post house, etc. "Wharton. POST-ACT. An after-act; an act done afterwards. POST CONQUESTUM. Afterthe Con quest. Words inserted in the king's title by King Edward I., and constantly used in the time of Edward III. Tomlins. POST-DATE. To date an instrument as of a time later than that at which it is really made. POST DIEM. After the day; as, a plea of payment post diem, after the day when the money became due. Com. Dig. "Plead er," 2. In old practice. The return of a writ after the day assigned. A fee paid in such case. Cowell. POST DISSEISIN. In English law. The name of a writ which lies for him who, having recovered lands and tenements by force of a novel disseisin, is again disseised by a former disseisor. Jacob. POST ENTRY. When goods are weighed or measured, and the merchant has got an account thereof at the custom-house, and finds his entry already made too small, he must make a post or additional entry for the surplusage, in the same manner as the first was done. As a merchant is always in time, prior to the clearing of the vessel, to make his post, he should take care not to over-enter, to avoid as well the advance as the trouble of getting back the overplus. McCul. Diet. Post executionem status lex non pa titur possibilitatem. 3 Bulst. 108. After the execution of the estate the law suffers not a possibility. POST FACTO. After the fact. See Ex POST FACTO. POST-FACTUM, or POSTFACTUM. An after-act; an act done afterwards; a post act.

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