KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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POST-NUPTIAL

POSTERITY

POST TERMINUM. After term, or post term. The return of a writ not only after the day assigned for its return, but after the term also, for which a fee was due. CoweU. POST, WRIT OF ENTRY IN. In Eng lish law. An abolished writ given by statute of Marlbridge, 52 Hen. III. c. 30, which pro vided that when the number of alienations or descents exceeded the usual degrees, a new writ should be allowed, without any mention of degrees at all. POSTAGE. The fee charged by law for carrying letters, packets, and documents by the public mails. —Postage stamp. A ticket issued by govern ment, to be attached to mail-matter, and repre senting the postage or fee paid for the transmis sion of such matter through the public mails. POSTAL. Relating to the mails; pertain ing to the post-office. —Postal currency. During a brief period following soon after the commencement of the civil war in the United States, when specie change was scarce, postage stamps were popu larly used as a substitute; and the first issues of paper representatives of parts of a dollar, issued by authority of congress, were called "postal currency." This issue was soon merged in others of a more permanent character, for which the later and more appropriate name is "fractional currency." Abbott. POSTEA. In the common-law practice, a formal statement, indorsed on the nisi priua record, which gives an account of the pro ceedings at the trial of the action. Smith, Act. 167. POSTED WATERS. In Vermont. Wa ters flowing through or lying upon inclosed or cultivated lands, which are preserved for the exclusive use of the owner or occupant by his posting notices (according to the stat ute) prohibiting all persons from shooting, trapping, or fishing thereon, under a prescrib ed penalty. See State v. Theriault, 70 Vt 617, 41 Atl. 1030, 43 L. R. A. 290, 67 Am. St Rep. 695. Lat. This term was used by the Romans to denote the descend ants in a direct line beyond the sixth degree. POSTERIORITY. This is a word of comparison and relation in tenure, the cor relative of which is the word "priority." Thus, a man who held lands or tenements of two lords was said to hold of his more an cient lord by priority, and of his less ancient lord by posteriority. Old Nat. Brev. 94. It has also a general application in law con sistent with its etymological meaning, and, as so used, it Is likewise opposed to priority. Brown. POSTERITY. AH the descendants of a person in a direct line to the remotest gen- POSTERIORES.

And so presently this is done. Post-notes are therefore intended to enter into the circulation of the country as a part of its medium of ex changes; the smaller ones for ordinary busi ness, and the larger ones for heavier operations. They are intended to supply the place of de mand notes, which the banks cannot afford to issue or reissue, to relieve the necessities of commerce or of the banks, or to avoid a compul sory suspension. They are under seal, or with out seal, and at long or short dates, at more or less interest, or without interest, as the necessi ties of the bank may require. Appeal of Hogg, 22 Pa. 488. POST-NUPTIAL. After marriage. Thus, an agreement entered into by a father after the marriage of his daughter, by which he engages to make a provision for her, would be termed a "post-nuptial agreement" Brown. •—Post-nuptial settlement. A settlement made after marriage upon a wife or chil dren; otherwise called a "voluntary" settle ment. 2 Kent, Comm. 173. POST OBIT BOND. A bond given by an expectant, to become due on the death of a person from whom he will have property. A bond or agreement given by a borrower of money, by which he undertakes to pay a larger sum, exceeding the legal rate of inter est, on or after the^death of a person from whom he has expectations, in case of surviv ing him. Crawford v. Russell, 62 Barb. (N. Y.) 92; Boynton v. Hubbard, 7 Mass. 119. POST-OFFICE. A bureau or department of ^government, or under governmental super intendence, whose office is to receive, trans mit, and deliver letters, papers, and other mail-matter sent by post. Also the office established by government in any city or town for the local operations of the postal system, for the receipt and distribution of mail from other places, the forwarding of mail there deposited, the sale of postage stamps, etc. —Post-office department. The name of one of the departments of the executive branch of the government of the United States, which has charge of the transmission of the mails and the general postal business of the country.—Post office order. A letter of credit furnished by the government, at a small charge, to facilitate the transmission of money. POST PROLEM SUSCITATAM. After issue born, (raised.) Co. Litt. 196. POST ROADS. The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the ave nues over which the mails shall be transport ed. Railway Mail Service Cases, 13 Ct CI. 204. A "post route," on the other hand, is the appointed course or prescribed line of transportation of the mail. U. S. v. Koch ersperger, 26 Fed. Cas. 803; Blackham v. Gresham (C. C.) 16 Fed. 611. POST-TERMINAL SITTINGS. Sit tings after term. See SITTINGS.