Limit

n. A bound; a restraint; a circumscription ; a boundary. Casler v. Connecticut Mut. Lu Ins. Co., 22 N. Y. 429. v. To mark out; to define; to fix the extent of. Thus, to limit an estate means to mark out or to define the period of its duration, and the words employed in deeds for this purpose are thence termed "words of limitation," and the act itself is termed "limiting the estate."

Brown.