post-obitn.adj.
/ˌpəʊstˈɒbɪt/, /ˌpəʊstˈəʊbɪt/, U.S. /ˌpoʊstˈoʊbət/, /ˌpoʊstoʊˈbɪt/ Now rare.
A. n.† 2. A thing which is to pass to someone after the owner's death; a legacy or heritage. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.† 3. = post-mortem n. 2. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
1. A bond given by a borrower, securing to the lender a sum of money to be paid on the death of a specified person from whom the borrower expects to inherit.
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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > to be discharged after death of specific person
post-obit1751
post-obit bond1791
1751 H. Walpole Lett. (1845) II. 377 They talk of fourteen hundred thousand pounds on post-obits.
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury viii. 82 Insurance in all its branches..the purchase and sale of annuities, and of post-obits.
1821 Ld. Byron Martial in Occas. Pieces Post-obits rarely reach a poet.
1899 Daily News 25 Jan. 5/5 A post obit..is a bond issued by an heir to property, conceding to the holder a lien on the estates after the death of the present possessor.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1372/1 Post-obit, a money bond conditioned for payment at or after the death of some person other than the giver of the bond. It is a form of quasi-security not infrequently given to moneylenders by expectant heirs.
1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) Gloss. 333 A post-obit was a kind of bond, or promise to pay, wherein one agreed to pay someone money upon the death of someone else from whom one was expecting to inherit money.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited
etheleOE
heritagea1225
ereward-richea1325
reversiona1325
patrimony1357
succession1382
inheriteson1470
heredity?c1550
inheritage1557
long acre1608
relict1726
post-obit1812
hand-me-down1909
1812 R. Southey in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) I. xi. 237 My intention to leave behind me my own Memoirs, as a post-obit for my family.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > autopsy > instance of
autopsy1805
post-mortem1834
necroscopy1835
necropsy1842
post-obit1854
post1942
1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 851/1 Post-obit is used by physicians precisely like post-mortem.
B. adj.
1. Taking effect after someone's death. Esp. in post-obit bond: = sense A. 1.
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the world > life > death > [adjective] > taking effect after death
post-obit bond1791
post-obituary1816
society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > to be discharged after death of specific person
post-obit1751
post-obit bond1791
1791 H. Blackstone Rep. Court Common Pleas 1 95 This was a post obit bond, a security of a questionable nature, which had often been disputed with success.
1808 Times 26 Feb. 4/4 A Post Obit Bond for 37,000l, payable within three months after the death of a Gentleman, aged 67 years.
1816 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1887) II. 8 I am to give a post-obit security for this sum.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. ii. 23 By post-obit liquidation.
1969 J. B. Saunders Words & Phrases legally Defined (ed. 2) IV. 157/2 A post obit bond is..usually given in respect of a loan for a greater sum than that advanced.
1999 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 38 401 Read at face value, Anglo-Saxon post-obit agreements provide unparalleled evidence for female benefaction to the church.
2. = post-obituary adj. 2. rare.
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the world > life > death > [adjective] > before or after death
posthume1598
posthumous1608
posthumeda1661
after-death1680
post-mortuary1791
post-mortem1816
post-obit1822
post-obituary1822
pre-mortem1892
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 406 The real nature of the swelling..can only be determined by a post-obit examination.
1825 Lancet 5 Feb. 148/1 A round dozen of diseases..present post-obit appearances essentially the same.
1972 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar.–Apr. 21/1 The post-obit inventories of the period mention silver articles which were evaluated by weight with no allowance apparently made for the cost of the workmanship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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