Post-Mark

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."

A stamp or mark put on letters in the postoffice. Post-marks are evidence of a letter’s having passed through the postoffice; 2 Camp. 620; 2 B. & P. 316; New Haven Co. Bk. v. Mitchell, 15 Conn. 2p6. But they are not evidence per se without proof; 1 Campb. POST MORTEM (Lat.). After death: as, an examination post mortem is an examination made of a dead body to ascertain the cause of death; an inquisition post mortem is one made by the coroner. It is the duty of the coroner, after death by violence, to cause a post mortem examination to be made by a competent medical authority. A physician thus employed may, at common law, maintain an action against the county for trouble and labor expended in such examination; Gibson, C. J., in Com. v. Harman, 4 Pa. 269. A father may maintain an action against one to whom he has intrusted his child for treatment, for an autopsy performed upon it after death; Burney v. Children’s Hospital, 109 Mass. 57, 47 N. E. 401, 38 L. R. A. 413, 61 Am. St. Rep. 273. A widow may recover damages in a similar case for the unlawful dissection of the body of her dead husband; Larson v. Chase, 47 Minn. 307, 50 N. W. 238, 14 L. R. A. 85, 28 Am. St. Rep. 370. “The right is to the possession of the corpse in the same condition it was in when death supervened. It is the right to what remains when the breath leaves the body, and not merely to such a hacked, hewed, and mutilated corpse as some stranger, an offender against the criminal law, may choose to turn over to an afflicted relative;” Foley v. Phelps, 1 App. Div. 551, 37 N. Y. Supp. 471; other authorities to the same general effect are Renihan v. Wright, 125 Ind. 536, 25 N. E. 822, 9 L. R. A. 514, 21 Am. St. Rep. 249; Young v. College of Physicians, 81 Md. 358, 32 Atl. 177, 31 L. R. A. 540. See Dead Body. POST-NATUS (Lat.). Literally, after born; it is used by the old law writers to designate the second son. See Puisne; Postnati.