Limitation

Eestriction; circumscription; boundary; the setting of of time, beyond which, except in specific cases, it will not be allowed. Limitation of assise: in old practice, a time prescribed by statute within which a man was required to allege himself, or his ancestor, to have been seised of lands sued for by a writ of assise. Limitation of estate: the definition or circumscription in any conveyance of the interest which the grantee is intended to take. Words of limitation are words which define the estate the grantee is to take, as distinguished from words of purchase, which name the grantee.