Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LIGHTERMAN

LIMITED ADMINISTRATION

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LIGHTERMAN. The master or owner of a lighter. He is liable as a common carrier. LIGHTS. 1. Windows; openings in the wall of a house for the admission of light. 2. Signal-lamps on board a vessel or at particular points on the coast, required by the navigation laws to be displayed at night. LIGIUS. A person bound to another by a solemn tie or engagement. Now used to express the relation of a subject to his sov ereign. Ligna et lapides sub "armorum" ap pellatione non continentur. Sticks and stones are not contained under the name of "arms." Bract, fol. 1446. LIGNAGIUM. A right of cutting fuel in woods; also a tribute or payment due for the same. Jacob. LIGNAMINA. Timber fit for building. Da Fresne. LIGULA. In old English law. A copy, exemplification, or transcript of a court roll or deed. Cowell. LIMB. A member of the human body. In the phrase "life and limb," the latter term appears to denote bodily integrity in general; but in the definition of "mayhem" it refers only to thdse members or parts of the body which may be useful to a man in fighting. 1 Bl. Comm. 130. LIMENARCHA. In Roman law. An officer who had charge of a harbor or port. Dig. 50, 4, 18, 10; Cod. 7, 16, 38. LIMIT, t>. 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 "wordsof limitation," and the act itself is termed "limiting the estate." Brown. LIMIT, n. A bound; a restraint; a cir cumscription; a boundary. 22 N. Y. 429. LIMITATION. Restriction or circum spection; settling an estate or property; a certain time allowed by a statute for litiga tion. In estates. A limitation, whether made by the express words of the party or existing in intendment of law, circumscribes the con tinuance of time for which the property is to be enjoyed, and by positive and certain terms, or by reference to some event which possi

bly may happen, marks the period at which the time of enjoyment shall end. Prest Es tates, 25. LIMITATION IN LAW. A limitation in law, or an estate limited, is an estate to be holden only during the continuance of the condition under which it was granted, upon the determination of which the estate vests immediately in him in expectancy. 2 Bl. Comm. 155. LIMITATION OP ACTIONS. The restriction by statute of the right of action to certain periods of time, after the accruing of the cause of action, beyond which, except in certain specified cases, it will not be al lowed. Also the period of time so limited by law for the bringing of actions. LIMITATION OF ASSIZE. In old practice. A certain time prescribed by stat ute, within which a man was required to allege himself or his ancestor to have been seised of lands sued for by a writ of assize. Cowell. LIMITATION OP ESTATE. The re striction or circumscription of an estate, in the conveyance by which it is granted, in re spect to the interest of the grantee or its du ration; the specific curtailment or confine ment of an estate, by the terms of the grant, so that it cannot endure beyond a certain period or a designated contingency. A conditional limitation (in the generic sense of the term) is where one estate is lim ited to end and another to commence on the doing of some act or the happening of some event. A collateral limitation is one which marks the extreme duration of an estate, and at the same time indicates an uncertain event, the happening of which will put an end to it before the expiration of that period. Sweet. LIMITATION, WORDS OP. Those which operate by reference to, or in connec tion with, other words, and extend or modify an estate given by such other words* a* "heirs," "heirs of the body." LIMITED. Restricted; bounded; pre scribed. Confined within positive bounds; restricted in duration, extent, or scope. LIMITED ADMINISTRATION. An administration of a temporary character, granted for a particular period, or for a spe cial or particular purpose. Holthouse.

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