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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Liable to happen or come to pass, capable of existing or of being conceived or thought of; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things.

Topeka City Ry. Co. v. Higgs, 38 Kan. 383, 16 Pac. 6G7, 5 Am. St. Rep. 754.

It is sometimes equivalent to practicable or reasonable; Palmer v. Ins. Co., 44 Wis. 208. An undertaking to supply an article as soon as possible is construed to mean with all reasonable promptitude, regard being had to the manufacturer’s means of business, and his orders already in hdnd; 26 L. J. C. P. 73; 4 Q. B. D. 670. POST (Lat.). After. When two or more alienations or descents have taken place between an original intruder and the tenant or defendant in a writ of entry, the writ is said to be in the post, because it states that the tenant had not entry unless after the ouster of the original intruder.

3 Bla. Com. 182.

Persons claiming under the propositus by feofment or inheritance were said to be “in the per” while those claiming in any other manner, e. g. the limitation of a use, as tenant in dower, etc., were said to be “in by the act of the party at common law unassisted by statute, while persons in the post take by operation of law without any act of the party or by his act aided by statute; 4 L. Quart. Rev. 362.

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A military establishment where a body of troops is permanently fixed. Caldwell’s Case, 19 Wall. (U. S.) 268, 22 L. Ed. 114; a military post is synonymous with military station.

U. S. v. Phisterer, 94 U. S. 219, 24 L. Ed. 116.