Post

Lat. After; occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to send the reader to a subsequent part of the book.

I. I. In old English of entry.

1. "L.prep. After; afterward.' Introduces Latin phrases, and is used in Latin and English compound words. ' Palmer v. St. Paul Ins. Co., 44 Wis. 208-9 (1878), cases; 4 Q. B. D. 673; 29 Moak, 103; 17 F. R. 431. 2 See Bodenhamer v. Welch, 89 N. C. 81 (1883); 46 Barb. 87; 7 Ohio St. 443. s Coke, Litt. 206 a; 3 BI. Com. 340; Davis v. Gray, 16 Wall. 229 (1873). The Harriman, 9 Wall. 172 (1869), cases, Swayne, J. s Dermott v. Jones, 2 Wall. 7-8,(1864), cases, Swayne, J.: 2 Story, Eq. §§ 1004 . Eliot Nat. Bank v. Beal, 141 Mass. 567-70 (1886), Post diem. After the day — when due; as, a plea of payment post diem. Post facto. After the fact. See Factum, Post, etc. Post hae. After this. Post litem m.otam.. After controversy begun. See Lis, Mota. Post mortem.. After death. See Coroner. Post natus. After-born. See Natus, Ante. Post obit. After he dies. See Obit. Post-date. To date after the true time. See Date. Post-due. Past due. See Due. Post-note. A note payable at a distant day, and not on demand. Differs from othev promissory notes only as to time of payment. Post-notes are a, species of obligation resorted to by banks when the exchanges of the country, and especially of the banks, have become embarrassed by excessive speculations. They are intended to supply the place of demand notes, which the banks cannot afford to issue or re-issue, to relieve the neces.sities of commerce or of the bank Sf or to avoid a compulsory suspension. They are under seal, or without seal, and at long or short dates, and with or without interest, as the necessities ot the bank may require." Post-nuptial. After nuptials or marriage. Opposed, ante-nuptial. See Settle, 4. 2. Eng. n.3 (1) A military station: (2) any fixed place on a line of road; (3) a conveyance betv Feen such places, and the person who used relays of horses; (4) speedy conveyance, rapid travel, quicls communication, communication by letter or message. Whence " the post," "post haste," etc. Military post. A military establishment where a body of troops is permanently stationed. Post-office. (1) The department of government concerned in receiving and delivering postal matter. The postmaster-general, deputy postmasters, and their assistants and clerks, appointed and sworn as required by law, are public officers; and each is answerable for his own negligence only.' See Tort, 2. ' Be Dyott's Estate, 2 W. & S. 489 (1841). " Hogg's Appeal, 23 Pa. 488-89 (18S4). = F. paste, a carrier, messenger: L. L. postus, posta, a station, post: L. positus. placed: ponere, to place. A " post-horse " was a horse placed at a station in readiness for a traveler. ' [Caldwell's Case, 19 Wall. 268 (1873), Hunt, J. (2) The " business" of keeping, forwarding and distributing mailable matter, equally with the "place" where such business is conducted. Such place, to constitute a post-office, may be a buildipg. an apartment in a building, a desk, or a trunk or box to be cari'ied about a house or from one building to another- The place of deposit is the post-office, in this sense. Hence, feloniously removing a letter out of the place where kept, in a post-office, is stealing it from the posloffice. ' " The Congress shall have Power. To establish Post Offices and Post Roads." " This power authorizes the regulation of the entire system: the designation of route, the m.atter — its weight and form, the places where receivable, the charges for carriage, measures to secure safe and speedy transit, prompt delivery, etc. Under this power thfdepartment also determines what matter shall and shall not be mailable. The protection of the public morals is incidental to the protection of the mails.* Post-road. A liighway by land or water over which mails may be lawfully transmitted. Post-route. A post-road, or a definite portion thereof, over which mails are usually transported by contract; a route for which the department contracts for the transportation of a mail.* Letters, and sealed packages subject to letter-postage, when once entrusted to the care ot the postal department, for transmission, are as fully guarded from inspection, except as to outward form and weight, as if retained by the forwarder in his own domicil. The guarantee against " unreasonable searches and seizures" extends to articles placed in the mails. They can be opened only imder warrant, duly sworn to and particularly describing the thing, as if it were a paper in ones own household. But what is purposely left open to inspection, as, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and other printed matter, may be examined without warrant. See further Letter. 3; Maii-, 2; Book, 2; Cibcdi.ar, 2; Liberty, Of the Press; Lottery; Obscene; Revenue; Telegraph.

/. After, afterwards; v. Entry, writ of. Post diem, disseisinam: after the day, the disseisin. Post-factum: an after act. Post-fine: the king's silver; v. Fine. Post litem motam:, after the suit was begun; after the dispute arose. Post mortem: after death. Post-natus: after bom. Postobit bond: a bond in which the obligor agrees to pay a sum after the death of a third person, usually a iperson from whom the obligor expects to inherit. Post prolem suscitatam: after issue born. Post terminum: after the term.

After; afterwards. A writ of entry in a case where two or more alienations or descents have taken place between the original disseisor and the tenant in the writ, was said to be in the post, because it stated that the tenant had not entry unless after the ouster of the original intruder. Compare Pek. The word is also used to introduce many Latin phrases, among which are the following: Post conquestum. After the conquest. Words inserted in the king's title by King Edward I., and constantly used in the time of Edward III. Tomlins. said to be post-dated. Thus, parties making during July a contract which they designed should take effect from Aug. 1, might pass a note for the price, bearing date in July, but specifying that interest should run from Aug. 1, which would be literally according to the facts; but they would be more likely to simply date the note Aug. 1. This would be post-dating it, and would have the effect to start interest on that day. Post-diem. After the day. A term used in pleading, as of a plea of payment after the day fixed, which is expressed by the phrase solvit post diem, — he paid after the day. Post disseisin. Where one person, having recovered lands from another in a possessory action, not being an assise of novel disseisin, was afterwards disseised by the party against whom he had obtained the judgment, the act of the latter was called a post disseisin; and the former might have a writ of post disseisin against him, which subjected the post disseisor to the same penalties as a re-disseisor. Termes de la Ley; Cowel; 3 Bl. Com. 188. 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 first was done. Post entries are usually confined to cargoes of grain. M'Culloch Com. Diet. Post facto. See Ex post Facto. Post litem motam. After suit moved; after a controversy is begun; after a dispute has arisen. This term is sometimes applied to depositions taken or other acts done after a suit is brought; but it is generally applied to declarations upon a question of pedigree, made after the beginning of a controversy out of which a suit hag arisen. Such declarations are excluded, while previous declarations may be admissible. But the line of distinction is the origin of the controversy, not the commencement of the suit. Post-mortem. After death. A term generally applied to an examination of a dead body, to ascertain the cause of death, or to the inquisition for that purpose by the coroner. Post natus. After-born. Anciently designate those bom after some particular event; as the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, or the independence of the American colonies. It is the correlative of antenatus, q. v. Post-note. A banker's promise to pay money at a future time, in distinction from ordinary notes payable on demand; a bank-note payable afterwards, not immediately. Post-nuptial. After marriage. Thus an agreement entered into by a father after the marriage of his daughter, by which he engages to make a provision for her, would be termed a post-nuptial agreement. Post-obit, or post-obitum. A postobit bond is an agreement, on the receipt of money by the obligor, to pay a larger sum exceeding the legal rate of interest upon the death of the person from whom he, the obligor, has some expectations it he survive him. Chesterfield v. Jameson, 2 Ves. 157. It is a bond executed by a person on the receipt of money from another, whereby the borrower binds himself to pay to the lender a sura exceeding the sum so received, and the ordinary interest thereof, upon the death of a person upon whose decease he (the borrower) expects to become entitled to some property. Smith Man. Eq.