post obitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

post-obit (複数形 post-obits)

1. (law) A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations.
   • 1827, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery:

     They were following pretty rapidly, upon the same terms, post obits, payable upon the death of Mrs. Wharton

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     […] he had raised money on post-obits, and encumbered the family estate […]