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Postumus

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A child of a testator, born after his death, who if born in his lifetime, would have been entitled to succeed him if he died intestate; a child of a testator conceived before the date of the will, but born afterwards, and before the testator's death.

See Posthumous Child.