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limitation 1. Law a certain period of time, legally defined, within which an action, claim, etc., must be commenced 2. Property law a restriction upon the duration or extent of an estate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing. For government; let it be in the hands of one, assisted with some counsel; and let them have commission to exercise martial laws, with some limitation. Hath any commentator well accounted for the limitation which an antient critic hath set to the drama, which he will have contain neither more nor less than five acts? |
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