Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or involving the right of postliminy.
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Examples
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If preliminary means before you enter across the threshold, then it seems perfectly reasonable to construct a similar “postliminary” for after you exit out the samedoor.
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If preliminary means “before you enter across the threshold,” then logically, postliminary should mean “after you have entered across the threshold,” not “after you have exited.”
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If preliminary means before you enter across the threshold, then it seems perfectly reasonable to construct a similar “postliminary” for after you exit out the same door.
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Nor is the ambiguity identified by the court some artifact of the suspect, supposedly not-in-the-dictionary nature of the word “postliminary”; rather, the ambiguity is in the statutory definition, and applies to “preliminary” aswell.
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Nor is the ambiguity identified by the court some artifact of the suspect, supposedly not-in-the-dictionary nature of the word “postliminary”; rather, the ambiguity is in the statutory definition, and applies to “preliminary” aswell.
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A police officer's activity of donning and doffing protective equipment constitutes an integral and indispensable part of officer's principal activities; it is not preliminary or postliminary within meaning of Portal-to-Portal Act, as required to support officer's claim for compensation for such activity.
Wage Law 2009
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Everybody knows that until the cession by treaty, the original owner has the postliminary right to a territory taken from him.
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activities which are preliminary to or postliminary to said principal activity or activities, which occur either prior to the time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases, such principal activity or activities.
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activities which are preliminary to or postliminary to said principal activity or activities, which occur either prior to the time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases, such principal activity or activities.
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Now I wouldn’t urge people to use the word “postliminary,” unless they’re dealing, as did this case, with a particular statute that uses the word.
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