KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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POSSIBILITY

POST-NOTES

tion of the fee. Carney v. Kain, 40 W. Va. 758, 23 S. E. 650.— Possibility on a possi bility. A remote possibility, as if a remain der be limited in particular to A.'s son John, or Edward, it is bad if he have no son of that name, for it is too remote a possibility that he should not only have a son, but a son of that particular name. 2 Coke, 51. POSSIBLE. Capable of existing or hap pening; feasible. In another sense, the word denotes extreme improbability, without excluding the idea of feasibility. It is also sometimes equivalent to "practicable" or "reasonable," as in some cases where action is required to be taken "as soon as possible." See Palmer v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 44 Wis. 208. - 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 he 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. After the 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 overplua 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-FACTTTM, OP POSTFACTUM. An after-act; an act done afterwards; a post-act. 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. POST HAC. 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 trans mission 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. See Wehle v. United States Mut. Ace. Ass'n, 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 31 N. Y. Supp. 865; Stephens v. People, 4 Parker Cr. R. (N. Y.) 475. POST 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 especially of the banks, have become em barrassed by excessive speculations. Much con cern 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.""