CONDITIONAL See also:

• LIMITATION, STATUTES OF

LIMITATION  , in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, a phrase used in two senses . (1) The qualification annexed to the See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

grant of an See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate or See also:

• INTEREST

interest in See also:

• LAND

land, providing for the determination of that grant or interest upon a particular contingency happening . An estate with such a See also:

• LIMITATION, STATUTES OF

limitation can endure only until the particular contingency happens; it is a See also:

• PRESENT

present interest, to be divested on a future contingency . The grant of an estate to a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man so See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long as he is See also:

• PARSON

parson of See also:

• DALE, ROBERT WILLIAM (1829-1895)
• DALE, SIR THOMAS (d. 1619)

Dale, or while he continues unmarried, are instances of conditional limitations of estates for See also:

• LIFE

life . (2) A future use or interest in land limited to take effect upon a given contingency . For instance, a grant to X. and his heirs to the use of A., provided that when C. returns from See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome the land shall go to the use of B. in See also:

• FEE

fee See also:

• SIMPLE

simple . B. is said to take under a conditional limitation, operating by executory devise or springing or shifting use (see See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

REMAINDER, REVERSION) .