post-obits

Gaunt House was assigned to this couple; for the head of the family chose to govern it, and while he reigned to reign supreme; his son and heir, however, living little at home, disagreeing with his wife, and borrowing upon post-obits such moneys as he required beyond the very moderate sums which his father was disposed to allow him.

Vanity Fair 2006

Cocoa Tree; that he had raised money on post-obits, and encumbered the family estate; that he drove four-in-hand, and patronised the ring; and that he actually had an opera-box, where he entertained the most dangerous bachelor company.

Vanity Fair 2006

It would be ruined by incumbrances in the shape of post-obits.

John Caldigate 2004

The various post-obits were presented and placed before him.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

These gentry were eager to lend the young blood money upon what are known in English law as post-obits, which loans in this particular case carried the trifling interest of about 100 per cent. per annum.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

James was cognizant of his friend's excursions among the money lenders, and no doubt he thought the young spendthrift, when he came into his fortune, would never know within a good many thousands how much he had borrowed, nor even the number of post-obits he had given.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

He imagined that they were bluffing and took them at their word, with the result that there fell upon Clonderriff a snowstorm of documents -- leases and mortgages and conveyances and post-obits -- all the documentary débris of a crumbled estate, from the Elizabethan charter on which the first Hewish had founded Roscarna to the illiterate IOU's of Jocelyn's spider-racing days.

The Tragic Bride Francis Brett Young 1919

"I suspect he's something in the smart money-lending line; one of the fellows who deal with minors and others on post-obits."

The Long Portage Harold Bindloss 1905

Month by month I realized that it was more and more difficult to get the brokers to renew my bills, or to cash any further post-obits upon an unentailed property.

Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The police believe that he at once sought out his brother to beg for money to cover the post-obits, but that, considering the sum he needed was several hundreds of thousands of pounds, Chetney refused to give it him.

Ranson's Folly Richard Harding Davis 1890