Obit
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A corruption of the Latin o Mit, or obivit, he died. Signifies a funeral solemnity or office anciently performed for the dead, most commonly when the corpse lay in the church, uninterred; also, the anniversary office. The anniversary of any person's death was called the obit; and to observe such day with prayers and alms or other commemoration was the keeping of the obit. We have not met the word in modern books, except in the compound post-obit, a bond given by an heir expectant, drawn payable after the one from whom he will inherit shall die.