POST DATE. To date an instrument a time after that on which it is made. Vide Date.

POST DIEM. After the day; as a plea of payment post diem, after the, day when the money became due. Com. Dig. Pleader, 2 W 29.

POST DISEISIN, Engl. law. The name of a writ¹ which, lies for him who, having recovered lands and tenements² by force of a novel disseisin, is again disseised by a former disseisor. Jacob.

POST ENTRY, maritime³ law. When a merchant makes an entry on the importation of, goods, and at the time he is not able to calculate exactly the duties which he is liable to pay, gave rise to the practice of allowing entries to be made after the goods have been weighed, measured or gauged⁴, to make up the deficiency of the original or prime entry; the entry thus allowed to be made is called a post entry. Chit. Com. Law, 746.

POST FACTO. after the fact. Vide Ex post facto.

POST LITEM MOTAM. After the commencement of the suit.

2. Declarations or acts of the parties made post litem motam, are presumed to be made with reference to the suit then pending⁵, and, for this reason, are not evidence in favor of the persons making them; while those made before an action has been commenced, in so me cases, as when a pedigree is to be proved, may in some cases be considered as evidence. 4 Camp. 401.

POST MARK. A stamp or, mark put on letters in the post office.

2. Post marks are evidence of a letter having passed through the post office. 2 Camp. 620; 2 B. & P. 316; 15 East, 416; 1 M. & S. 201; 15 Com. R. 206.

POST MORTEM. After death; as, an examination post mortem, is an examination made of a dead body to ascertain⁶ the cause of death; an inquisition post mortem, is one made by the coroner.

POST NOTES. A species of bank notes payable⁷ at a distant period, and not on demand. 2 Watts⁸ & Serg. 468. A kind of bank notes intended to be transmitted at a distance by post. See 24 Maine, R. 36.

POST NATUS. Literally⁹ after born; it is used by the old law writers to designate the second son. See Puisne; Post-nati.