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Collateral Limitation

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In the law of estates. A limitation of an estate which gives an interest for a specified period, but makes the right of enjoyment to depend on some collateral event; as a limitation of an estate to a man and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale, or to a woman during widowhood, &c.

4 Kent's Com. 128.