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Post-Mark

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A stamp or mark put on letters in the post office.. Postmarks are evidence of a letter's having passed through the post office.

2 Campb. 620; 2 Bos. & P. 316; 15 East, 416; 1 Maule & S. 201; 15 Conn. 206.

POSTNATI (Lat. those born after). Applied to American and British subjects born after the separation of England and the United States; also to the subjects of Scotland born after the union of England and Scotland. Those born after an event, as opposed to antenati, those born before.

2 Kent, Comm. 56-59; 2 Pick. (Mass.) 394; 5 Day (Conn.) 169*.

See "Antenati."

See Antenati.