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  • 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 flrst was done. As a merchant is always More...
  • POST FACTO
    After the fact See Ex POST FACTO
  • POST-FACTUM, OR 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 lioentia 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 More...
  • POST HAC
    Lat After this; after this time; hereafter.
  • POST LITEM MOTAM
    Lat After suit moved or commenced. Depositions in relation to the subject of a suit made after litigation 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 transmission through the malls.
  • POST-MORTEM
    After death. A term generally applied to an autopsy or examination 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 Acc. Ass'n, 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 31 N. Y. Supp. 865; Stephens v. More...
  • POST NATUS
    Born afterwards. A term applied by old writers to a second or younger son. It is used in private international law to designate a person who was born after some historic event, (such as the American Revolution or the act of union between England and Scotland,) and whose rights or More...
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