In the common-law practice, a formal statement, lndorsed on the nisi prius record, which gives an account of the proceedings at the trial of the actlon. Smlth, Act. 167
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In Eng-lish law’. An abolished writ given by statute of Marlbridge, 52 Hen. III. c. 30, which provided that wheu the number of alienations or descents exceeded the usual degrees, a new writ should be allowed, wlthout any mention of degrees at all
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The fee charged hy law for carrying letters, packets, and documents by the public malls
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Sit-tings after term. See Sittings
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After term, or post-term. The return of a writ not only after the day assigned for its return, but after the term also, for which a fee was due. Cowell
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After issue born, (raised.) Co. Lltt. 19b
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The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the avenues over which the malls shall be transport-ed. Railway Mall Service Cases, 13 Ct. Cl. 204. A “post route,” on the other hand, is the appointed course or prescribed line of transportatlou of the mail. U. 8. v. Koch-ersperger, 26 Fed. Cas. 803; Blackbam v. Gresham (C. C.) 16 Fed. 611
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A bond glven by an expectant, to become due on tbe death of a person from whom he will have property. A bond or agreement glven by a borrower of money, by which he undertakes to pay a larger sum, exceeding the legal rate of inter* est, on or after the death of a person from whom he has expectations, in case of surviving him. Crawford v. Russell, 62 Barb. (N. Y.) 92; Boynton v. Hubbard, 7 Mass. 119
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A bureau or department of government, or under governmental superintendence, whose office is to receive, trans-mlt, and deliver letters, papers, and other mall-matter sent by post Also the office established by government in any city or town for the local operations of the postal system, for the receipt and distribution of mall from other places, the forwarding of mail there deposited, the sale of postage stamps, etc
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A species of bank-notes payable at a distant period, and not on demand
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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” Brown
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After death. A term generally applied to an autopsy or examina-tion of a dead body, to ascertain the cause of death, or to the Inquisition for that purpoee by the coroner. See wehle v. United States Mut Acc. Ass’n, 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 31 N. Y. Supp. 865; Stephens v. People, 4 Parker Cr. R. (N. Y.) 475
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Born afterwards. A term applied by old writers to a second or younger son. It is used in private interna-tlonal law to designate a person who was born after some historic event, (such as the American Revolution or the act of union be-tween England and Scotland,) and whose rights or status will be governed or affected by the question of hls birth before or after such event
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A stamp or mark put on letters received at the post-office for transmission through the mails
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In old conveyancing. A flne or sum of money, (otherwise called the “king’s silver”) formerly due on granting the licentia concordandi, or leave to agree, in levying a fine of lands. It amounted to three-twentieths of the supposed annual value of the land, or ten shillings for every five marks of land. 2 Bl. Comm. 350
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After the day; as, a plea of payment post diem, after the day when the money became due. Com. Dig. “Plead-er,” 2
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In English law. The name of a wrlt which lies for him who. having recovered lands and tenements by force of a novel disseisin, is again disseised by a former disseisor. Jacob
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After the Con-quest words inserted in the king’s title by King Edward I., and constantly used in the time of Edward III. Tomlins
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To date an instrument as of a time later than that at which it is really made
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A conveyance for letters or dis-patches. The word is derived from “positi,” the horses carrying the letters or dispatches being kept or placed at fixed stations. The word is also applied to the person who conveys the letters to the houses where he takes up and lays down hls charge, and to the stages or distances between house and house. Hence the phrases, post-boy, post-horse, post-house, etc. wharton
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