Simple English definitions for legal terms
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Posterity: This means all the people who will come after us in the future. It includes our children, grandchildren, and all the generations that will follow us.
Definition: Posterity refers to all the future generations of people. It can also refer to all the descendants of a person, including those who are born many years later.
The first example shows how we should think about the future and the impact our actions will have on the generations to come. The second example illustrates how the concept of posterity was important to the people who created the US government. The third example shows how posterity can refer to our own descendants, even those who we will never meet.