KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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LIMITATION

LINEA RECTA EST INDEX

be holden onlv during the continuance of the con dition under which it was granted, upon the de termination of which the estate vests immediate ly in him in expectancy. 2 Bl. Comm. 155.— Limitation of 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 allowed. Also the period of time so limited by law for the bringing of actions. See Keyser v. Lowell, 117 Fed. 404, 54 C. C. A. 574; Battle v. Shivers, 39 Ga. 409; Baker v. Kelley, 11 Minn. 493 (Gil. 358) ; Riddelsbarger v. Hartford F. Ins. Co., 7 Wall. 390, 19 L. Ed. 257.— Limitation of assize. In old practice. A certain 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 assize. Cowell.— Limitation of estate. The restriction or circumscription of an estate, in the conveyance by which it is granted, in respect to the interest of the grantee or its duration; the specific curtailment or confinement of an estate, by the terms of the grant, so that it cannot endure beyond a cer tain period or a designated contingency.— Limi tation over. This term includes any estate in the same property created or contemplated by the conveyance, to be enjoyed after the first estate granted expires or is exhausted. Thus, in a gift to A. for life, with remainder to the heirs of his body, the remainder is a "limitation over" to such heirs. Ewing v. Shropshire, 80 Ga. 374, 7 S. B. 554.— Special limitation. A qualification serving to mark out the bounds of an estate, so as to determine it ipso facto in a given event, without action, entry,^ or claim, be fore it would, or might, otherwise expire by force of, or according to, the general limitation. Henderson v. Hunter, 59 Pa. 340.— Statute of limitations. A statute prescribing limitations to the right of action on certain described caus es of action; that is, declaring that no suit shall be maintained on such causes of action unless brought within a specified period after the right accrued.— Title by limitation. A prescriptive title; one which is indefeasible be cause of the expiration of the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for the bringing of actions to test or defeat it. See Dalton v. Ren taria, 2 Ariz. 275, 15 Pac. 37.— Words of lim itation. In a conveyance or will, words which have the effect of marking the duration of an estate are termed "words of limitation." Thus, in a grant to A. and his heirs, the words "and his heirs" are words of limitation, because they show that A. is to take an estate in fee-simple and do not give his heirs anything. Fearne, Rem. 78. And see Ball v. Payne, 6 Rand. (Va.) 75: Summit v. Yount, 109 Ind. 506, 9 N. E. 582. Restricted; bounded; pre scribed. Confined within positive bounds; restricted in duration, extent, or scope. -—Limited administration. An administra tion of a temporary character, granted for a particular period, or for a special or particular purpose. Holthouse.— Limited owner. A ten ant for life, in tail, or by the curtesy, or other person not having a fee-simple in his absolute disposition. As to limited "Company," "Divorce," "Ex ecutor," "Fee," "Jurisdiction," "Liability," and "Partnership," see those titles. LIMOGIA. Enamel. Du Cange. LINARTUM. In old English law. A flax plat, where flax is grown. Du Cange. LINCOLN'S INN. An inn of court See INNS OV COUET. LIMITED.

LINE. The order or se ries of persons who have descended one from the other or all from a common ancestor, considered as placed in a line of succession in the order of their birth, the line showing the connection of all the blood-relatives. Measures. A line is a lineal measure, containing the one-twelfth part of an inch. In estates. The boundary or line of di vision between two estates. —Building line. A line established by mu nicipal authority, to secure uniformity of ap pearance in the streets of the city, drawn at aj certain uniform distance from the curb or from the edge of the sidewalk, and parallel thereto, upon which the fronts of? all buildings on that street must be placed, or beyond which they are not allowed to project. See Tear v. Freebody, 4 C. B. (N. S.) 263.— Collateral line. A line of descent connecting persons who are not directly related to each other as as cendants or descendants, but whose relation ship consists in common descent from the same ancestor.— Direct line. A line of descent trac ed through those persons only who are related to each other directly as ascendants or descend ants.— Line of credit. A margin or fixed limit of credit, granted by a bank or merchant to a customer, to the full extent of which the latter may avail himself in his dealings with the former, but which he must not exceed; usu ally intended to cover a series of transactions, in which case, when the customer's line of credit is nearly or quite exhausted, he is expected to reduce his indebtedness by payments before drawing upon it further. See Isador Bush Wine Co v. Wolff, 48 La. Ann. 918, 19 South. 765; Schneider-Davis Co. v. Hart, 23 Tex. Civ. App. 529, 57 S. W. 903— Line of duty. In military law and usage, an act is said to be done, or an injury sustained, "in the line of duty," when done or suffered in the perform ance or discharge of a duty incumbent upon the individual in his character as a member of the military or naval forces. See Rhodes v. U. S., 79 Fed. 743, 25 C. C. A. 186.— Lines and cor ners. In surveying and conveyancing. Bound ary lines and their terminating points, where an angle is formed by the next boundary line.—• Maternal line. A line of descent or rela tionship between two persons which is traced through the mother of the younger.— Paternal line. A similar line of descent traced through the father. In descents. oblique line. More commonly termed recta. The direct line; the vertical line. In computing degrees of kin dred and the succession to estates, this term denotes the direct line of ascendants and de scendants. Where a person springs from an other immediately, or mediately through a third person, they are said to be in the direct line, (linea recta,) and are called "ascendants" and "descendants." Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 129. —Linea transversalis. A collateral, trans verse, or oblique line. Where two persons are descended from a third, they are called "collat erals," and are said to be related in the col lateral line, (linea transversa or obliqua.) Linea recta est index sui et obliqui; lex est linea recti. Co. Litt. 158. A right line is a test of itself, and of an oblique; law is a line of right transversahs^—Tiinea LINEA. Lat. A line; line of descent. See LINE. — Linea obliqua. In the civil law. The "linea