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Collateral Limitation

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A limitation in the conveyance of an estate, giving an interest for a specified period, but making the right of enjoyment depend upon some collateral event, as, an estate to A. till B. shall go to Rome. Park, Dower, 163; 4 Kent, Comm. 128; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 215.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One limiting an estate by an event other than the life or issue of the grantee. See 86 Tex. 358, 24 S. W. 792.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A limitation in the conveyance of an estate, giving an interest for a specified period, but making the right of enjoyment depend upon some collateral event; as an estate to A till B shall go to Rome. Park, Dow. 163; 4 Kent 128; 1 Washb. R. P. 215.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One which gives an interest in an estate for a specified period, but makes the right of enjoyment to depend on some collateral event, as an estate to A. till B. shall go to Rome. Templeman v. Gibbs, 86 Tex. 358, 24 S. W. 792 ; 4 Kent, Comm. 128.

Defined under Limitation in Black's Law Dictionary.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

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.