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(A) To place a notice in an obvious and conspicuous location so that it is unquestionably seen by the intended recipient, e.g. nailed to the door of the recipient's home. (B) To mail, the post date is the date a letter is mailed. (C) To record something, e.g. to post an entry to a ledger. (D) To be recorded, e.g. after transferring money, the money posted in the account … [Read more...] about POST

These Latin words signify the power of the county. 2. The sheriff has authority by the common law, while acting under the authority of the writ of the United States, commonwealth or people, as the case may be, and for the purpose of preserving the public peace, to call to his aid the posse comitatus. 3. But with respect to writs which issue, in the first instance, to arrest in … [Read more...] about POSSE COMITATUS

Latin: After; occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to send the reader to a subsequent part of the book. … [Read more...] about POST (LATIN)

To occupy In person; to have In one's actual and physical control; to have the exclusive detention and control of; also to own or be entitled to. … [Read more...] about POSSESS

After the Conquest Words inserted in the king's title by King Edward I., and constantly used in the time of Edward III. Tomlins. … [Read more...] about POST CONQUESTUM