Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Posthumous

adj. Occurring or existing after death; esp., (of a child) born after the father's death.

posthumous child

A child born after the father's death.quasi posthumous child. Civil law. A child who becomes a direct heir of a grandfather or other male ascendant because of the death of the child's father.

posthumous work

Copyright. The product of an author who died before publication.

quasi posthumous child.

Civil law. A child who becomes a direct heir of a grandfather or other male ascendant because of the death of the child's father.

quasi-posthumous child

See CHILD.