post-obit, a. and n.
(pəʊstˈɒbɪt, -ˈəʊbɪt)
[Shortened from L. post obitum after decease.]
A. adj.
1. Taking effect after some one's death: esp. in post-obit bond (see B. 1).
| 1788 H. Blackstone Reports I. 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 Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) II. 8, I am to give a post-obit security for this sum. 1847 Disraeli Tancred i. ii, By post-obit liquidation. |
2. Done or made after death; post-mortem; occurring or existing after death. ? Obs.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 357 The real nature of the swelling..can only be determined by a post-obit examination. Ibid. II. 12, 99. |
B. n.
1. (Short for post-obit bond.) 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 has expectations.
| 1751 H. Walpole Lett. (1845) II. 377 They talk of fourteen hundred thousand pounds on post-obits. 1821 Byron Occas. Pieces, Martial, Post-obits rarely reach a poet. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles xxvi. 267 [He] had lent ready gold, to be paid back, post-obit fashion, on a father's coffin-lid. 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. |
2. A thing which is to pass to some one after the owner's death; a legacy or heritage. nonce-use.
| 1812 Southey in Smiles Mem. J. Murray (1891) I. xi. 237 My intention to leave behind me my own Memoirs, as a post-obit for my family. |
3. = post-mortem n. ? Obs.
| 1864 in Webster. |