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  • POSTAL
    Relating to the mails; pertaining 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 popularly used as a substitute; and the first issues of paper representatives of parts of More...
  • POSTEA
    In the common-law practice, a formal statement, indorsed on the nisi prius record, which gives an account of the proceedings at the trjal of the action. Smith, Act. 167.
  • POSTED WATERS
    In Vermont Waters 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 statute) prohibiting all persons from shooting, trapping, or fishing thereon, under a prescribed penalty. See State v. Theriault, 70 More...
  • POSTERIORES
    Lat This term was used by the Romans to denote the descendants in a direct line beyond the sixth degree.
  • POSTERIORITY
    This is a word of comparison and relation in tenure, the correlative of which is the word "priority." Thus, a man who held lands or tenements of two lords was said to hold of his more ancient lord by priority, and of his less ancient lord by posteriority. Old Nat. More...
  • POST-TERMINAL SITTINGS
    Sittings after term. See SITTINGS.
  • POSTERITY
    All the descendants of a person in a direct line to the remotest generatlon. Breckinridge v. Denny, 8 Bush (Ky.) 527.
  • POSTHUMOUS CHILD
    One horn after the death of its father; or, when the Caesa- rean operation is performed, after that of the mother. Poithuivi pro nato habetur. A posthumous child is considered as though born, [at the parent's death.] Hall v. Hancock, 15 Pick. (Mass.) 258, 26 Am. Dec. 598.
  • POSTLIMINIUM
    Lat. In the civil law. A doctrine or fiction of tbe law by which the restoration of a person to any status or right formerly possessed by him was considered as relating back to the time of his original loss or deprivation; particularly In the case of one who, having More...
  • POSTLIMINY
    See POSTLIMINIUM.
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