limitationn.

Brit.

/ˌlɪmᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌlɪməˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English limitacioun, late Middle English limitacyon, late Middle English lymytacioun, late Middle English lymytacyoun, late Middle English–1500s lymitacyon, late Middle English–1500s lymytacion, late Middle English– limitation, 1500s limitacion, 1500s limittacion, 1500s lymitacion, 1500s lymittation, 1500s lymytacyon, 1500s–1600s lymitation, 1500s–1700s limittation, 1600s limmitation; Scottish pre-1700 limitacioun, pre-1700 limitatioun, pre-1700 limtacioun, pre-1700 1700s– limitation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French limitation; Latin līmitātiōn-, līmitātiō.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman limitacioun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French limitacion, limitation (French limitation ) action of limiting something (1304 in Old French, originally with reference to limiting a person's authority), action of determining the boundaries of a country or territory (1322), border, boundary (late 14th cent.), in Anglo-Norman also period specified in a statute (end of the 13th cent. or earlier; frequently in legal use), appointed time (a1369 or earlier), limiting statement, provision (a1377 or earlier; frequently in legal use), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin līmitātiōn-, līmitātiō fixing of boundaries (for a plot of land), in post-classical Latin also boundary (13th cent. in a British source), limited condition, defined state (from 13th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), specific district assigned for preaching and teaching (14th cent. in British sources), act of designating, power to assign (from 14th cent. in British sources) < līmitāt- , past participial stem of līmitāre limit v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan limitació (1438), Spanish limitación (early 14th cent.), Portuguese limitação (1446 as †limitaçom ), Italian limitazione (a1380). Compare limit n., limiting n. With sense 1a compare limiter n. 1.

a. An allotted space; esp. the area assigned to a limiter (limiter n. 1), within which he is permitted to preach, hear confessions, and beg. Also: †the district or circuit of an itinerant officer; †the region belonging to a particular nation. Now historical.In quot. a1475: (figurative) one's allotted sphere.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > preaching > district of

limitationc1405

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity

fieldOE

limitationc1405

hemisphere?1504

ambitudea1525

world1580

orb1598

spherea1616

ambit1649

scene1737

orblet1841

front1917

parish1940

ballpark1963

shtick1965

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun]

landc725

kithc888

thedec888

earthOE

groundOE

foldOE

countryc1300

marchc1330

nationc1330

wonec1330

provincea1382

soila1400

strandc1400

terragec1440

room1468

limita1513

limitationa1527

seat1535

terrene1863

negara1955

negeri1958

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under other specific governors or officials

sergeancy1371

limitation1535

commissionership1625

warnership1636

mairie1650

regency1656

grieveship1711

see land1732

residentship1800

banate1804

intendancy1810

field-cornetcy1826

inspectorate1883

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 851 The lymytour..seith his matyns and his holy thynges As he gooth in his lymytacioun.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 182 Oo frere grutchiþ aȝens anoþer, and fiȝtiþ wiþ him, whanne he prechiþ treuþe in his lymytacioun.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 12620 Whyl thow the holdest by resoun Wyth-Inne thy lymytacioun, Nat to Erryn, nyh nor ffer.

a1500 (a1419) Jack Upland (Harl.) l. 179 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 62 [Ȝoure] lymytouris..wole not suffre o frere to begge in anoþeres lymytacioun.

a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. D^v The sayde Ilands fall all without the limitation of Portingale.

1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 27 Auditours..yerely ridinge their seueral circuites and limittacions.

1581 B. Gilpin Godly Serm. 40 Some [pulpits] haue not had four sermons these xv. or xvi. years, since Friers left their limitations.

1608 E. Grimeston in tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xvi. 1391 In a certaine note sent in the letter written by the States to Frier Iohn Nayen and Vereyken, they had giuen a larger limitation therein, then otherwise was intended.

1855 R. Bell in Wks. Chaucer II. 74 Friars, being by their rule obliged to walk about within their limitation to beg their maintenance.

1886 Reliquary Apr. 209 The river which separates Norfolk from Suffolk should divide the limitation of the friars of Norwich from the limitation of those of Dunwich.

1993 Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 31 281 Friar John de Vylers, described as of Northampton convent and warden of the friars of Oxford, was commissioned as bishop's penitentiary within the limitation of either convent for one year.

†b. An allotted time. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > definite period

fecc1000

limita1616

limitationa1616

perioda1751

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 139 You haue stood your Limitation .

†a. A warrant, authorization, or order. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > authorization

warrant1387

limitation?1410

authorization1472

fiant1534

passport1571

warranty1591

?1410 T. Hoccleve Ballad to Somer l. 51 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 66 By our Stywardes limitacioun..Warned yee wern for the dyner arraye Ageyn thorsday next.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 70 (MED) Prelatis..commaunden þat no man schal preche þe gospel but at here wille & lymytacion.

1450 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1889) 212 (MED) So that the payne be sequestryd in the handes of the said Fader Pryour, and expendyd be the limitacyon of My Lord of Caunterbury.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 33 (MED) Fyschers þat bryng See fysche in-to this cite be not Osted ne Inned at any fischers housz of this cite, but at othur Innes at lymytacion of the maiour.

b. A limiting statement, rule, or circumstance; a provision. In later use chiefly in legal contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > instance of

conditionc1380

protestationc1390

butc1405

restrictiona1450

limitationc1475

if1532

conditionary1678

reservation1719

whereas1795

yes but1870

string1888

c1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Tiber.) l. 22316 (MED) Lakkynge dyscrescyoun, Thow madeste a lymytacyoun, Affermynge, by a maner slouthe, My dyrk parte wher voyde off trouthe.

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 The lymitacyon expressed in the statute of Westmynster.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 134 This limitation is suspected of some not to bee sounde.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 34 That limitation therefore of after setling is a meere tautology.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity x. 33 Let him mince it as well as he can with mental limitations and restrictions.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 10 Apr. (1974) VIII. 160 So as that he that goes may go with limitations and rules to fallow.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. viii. 193 I shall have little further to add, but some Limitations..with regard to particular Cases.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 34 This limitation was made by parliament, that through the Princess Sophia an inheritable line, not only was to be continued in future, but..through her it was to connected with the old stock of inheritance.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. xi. 261 Most of the provinces coupled their acquiescence with limitations which rendered it of little worth.

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ii. 53 He was heir to the earldom of Tyrone according to the limitations of the patent.

1949 Labor Arbitration Rep. 11 56/2 There is no such limitation in the contract pertaining to the suspension period complained of.

2009 B. E. Hood in Guide to US Real Estate Investing (Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate) xxvi. 186/1 Except for certain limitations in the US Constitution, no uniformity of taxation is required of US States and localities.

3. Limit; border, boundary; confine. Cf. limit n. 1, 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit

markOE

measurea1375

bound1393

sizec1420

banka1425

limita1425

limitationa1475

stint1509

within one's tether?1523

confine1548

tropic?1594

scantling1597

gauge1600

mound1605

boundalsa1670

meta1838

parameter1967

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s) > border(s)

frontier1413

limitationa1475

skirt1488

limity1523

rind1530

border1535

ambit1597

verges1680

county line1776

land-board1790

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 12537 (MED) Myn Errour Hath no lymytaciouns.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxviii. 344 They of the..marches and lymitacions of the realme of Castell, Came..and made homage.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 1 To the conservation of the body of mankynde within the lymitation of helth.

1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 61 Numa Pompilius..did cause as well a publik perambulation to be made throughout his whole kingdom as priuate limitations & bounds betwixt partie & partie.

1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 23 The Gouernment, Religion, Territories and Limitations.

1756 Monthly Rev. Sept. 228 It is rebellion to resist the supreme Governors, whilst they keep within the natural limitations of supreme power.

1796 H. L. Piozzi Diary Nov. in Thraliana (1942) II. 968 They are changing the names & altering the Limitations in all the four continents I think.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. viii. 162 She knew the limitations of her own powers too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic i. 25 When the use of words is not checked by a frequent recurrence in thought to the precise limitations of their meaning.

1916 W. H. Varnum Arts & Crafts Design iii. 30 It is suggested that it is desirable to keep clay forms within the limitations of two divisions.

1978 J. Goldstein in P. M. Lipscomb Noise & Audiol. i. 6 There are limitations in the frequencies the human ear can perceive.

a. The action of limiting or placing a limit on something, constraint, restriction; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun]

limiting1391

moderation1429

bridlingc1443

limitation1483

confine1548

restriction1554

limit1572

prescription1604

bounding1607

circumscriptiona1616

stricture1649

stinting1656

circumscribing1660

contractiona1670

confinement1678

contracting1692

handcuff1814

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation

definitionc1386

limiting1391

moderation1429

limitation1483

restriction1554

restraint1566

limit1572

stint1593

prescription1604

stintance1605

bounding1607

confining1608

confine1609

circumscriptiona1616

definement1643

stricture1649

stinting1656

circumscribing1660

contractiona1670

confinement1678

contracting1692

narrowing1871

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 217 A Lymytacion, limitacio.

1533 T. More Apol. ix, in Wks. 865/2 They..leaue not one man for Goddes parte thys eyghte hundred yeare paste by theyr owne lymitacion.

1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 20 §1 Their heires inheritable by the limitacion of suche giftes.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 76 This absolute limitation and restraint of Satan.

1683 Britanniæ Speculum 63 The Monarch himself must be Judge, and then farewel Limitation.

1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 250 It is here, without any restriction or limitation, applied, by the inspired Writer, to our Saviour Christ.

1786 S. Johnson Everlasting Punishment Ungodly 285 What can be more decisively clear than the limitation of these blessings to the believing only?

1840 F. A. Rauch Psychology ii. i. 186 Every sensation presupposes the limitation of an activity, and a feeling of this limitation.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. iii. 623 A fresh limitation of the succession to the throne was made towards the end of the reign of William III.

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 272 The limitation of special families and sub-orders to special Continents.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 259 They..had become tired and impatient of that modest contentment which rewards the limitation of desires.

1971 S. Kennedy Murphy's Bed ii. 103 So far, this discussion of Beckett's theories of Greek myth,..[has] been restricted to his own statements,... Such a limitation was deliberate.

2001 M. J. Phillips Lochner Court, Myth & Reality i. 15 The limitation of governmental power meant increasing liberty for the people.

†b. spec. The action of determining the boundaries (of a country, etc.) or contour (of a figure, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > determination of boundary

meting1543

mereing1574

boundage1610

abuttallingc1628

limitation1677

demarcation1728

1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 5 Letters Patent granted by the King for the Limitation of Virginia.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 31/2 Limitation we call the determining or fixing the sweeps of all the lines, the projections of the angles..and the depression of every hollow.

5. Law. The specification of a time period (or the period specified) within which some benefit may be enjoyed or an action must be performed.

a. The statutory specification of a period, or the period specified, within which legal proceedings may be brought. Cf. Statute of Limitations n. at Phrases.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > condition of being pending > limit of time for action to be raised

prescription1449

limitation1527

negative prescription1838

1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. cxxxii (heading) Limitacion.

1598 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) 127/1 Limitation is an assignement of a space of time, within which, he that will sue for any lands or hereditants, ought to prove that he or his auncester was seised of the thing demaunded, or otherwise he shall not maintaine his sute or action.

1676 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War (new ed.) iv. 462 This Treason had so long out-faced the Law, and the Justice of the Kingdom, that if there had been a time of limitation, there would have been no time nor place left to punishment.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 188 In all these possessory actions there is a time of limitation settled, beyond which no man shall avail himself of the possession of himself or his ancestors.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 250 Sixty years..is the longest period of limitation assigned by the statute of Henry VIII.

1837 Legal Observer 14 Jan. 194/2 The period of limitation is four years in actions of trespass, assault, battery, wounding and imprisonment; and two years in actions for words spoken.

1856 P. R. Grattan Rep. Supreme Court of Appeals Virginia 12 585 The effect of the whole taken together would seem to preserve..the preexisting periods of limitation.

1909 Rep. Supreme Court Nebraska 79 Index 884 Limitation of an action for malicious prosecution does not begin to run until the criminal case is dismissed, or the prosecution terminated.

1924 M. Teresa Legislation for Women in Oregon ii. 22 The defendant pleaded the ten year limitation on the action.

1970 Insurance Counsel Jrnl. Apr. 259/1 The handwriting is clearly on the wall insofar as the limitation of actions against attorneys is concerned.

1989 D. W. Louisell & H. Williams Med. Malpractice (new ed.) I. xiii. 13-6 (footnote) The limitation applicable to negligence actions was applied in a case involving blood clots caused by birth control medication.

2005 Mod. Law Rev. 68 851 The period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud.

b. The specification of a period, or the period specified, for the continuance of an estate, the operation of a law, the term of a mortgage, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > a limitation or condition of > limitation of time

limitation1592

society > law > [noun] > a law > period of operation of

limitation1821

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §44 Euerie estate either executed maintenant, or executorie by limitation of use, which vesteth in possession by vertue of the Statute of 27 H. 8.

1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 12 An Act of Parliament..for cutting and conveying a River from any part of Middlesex or Hertfordshire, to the Citie of London, with a limitation of ten yeeres time for the performance thereof.

a1648 J. Godbolt Rep. Certain Cases Courts of Rec. Westm. (1652) 351 The first Question is, If the Remainder doth continue: The second is, If it be a Perpetuity, or a Limitation.

1706 Boston News-let. 3 June 5/1 I think it proper to recommend to you the Reviving of the Militia Act, which expired by its own Limitation in the year 1704.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 155 When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for any longer time than till the contingency happens upon which the estate is to fail, this is denominated a limitation.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 497 The future limitation being only for the life of a person in esse.

1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 245 The limitation of the act was to three years, or the end of the next general assembly.

1908 Lawyers Rep. Annotated 11 744/2 Does the last payment on a past-due debt secured by a mortgage,..fix the period from which the limitation applicable to the mortgage is to be computed?

1909 Eng. Rep. 94 638 These words, and ‘for want of such issue,’ shall never raise an estate-tail by implication in him, to whom the limitation was for life.

1996 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 45 675 All that the expiry of the period of limitation does is to exclude a claim by the proper owner.

†c. The settlement or disposition of an estate by a special provision or with a special modification or modifications; the modification or provision itself. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > types of

limitation1651

lease and release1670

innocent conveyance1811

1651 J. March Amicus Reipublicæ 5 I am not ignorant, that when I give Lands to a man & his Heirs, the Law saith, that the word [Heirs] is by way of limitation, not of purchase.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 193 A tenancy in common may..be created by express limitation in a deed.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 271 By the limitation of the will, he was to make a grant of the rent.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 73 The..failure of the objects of the several limitations.

a. The condition of being limited; limitedness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount

limitation1597

limitedness1631

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun]

limitation1597

limitedness1631

confinedness1639

narrowness1641

contractedness1659

inextension1827

stintedness1827

restrictedness1828

boundedness1886

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > quality of being restricted or limited

limitation1597

limitedness1631

confinedness1639

contractedness1659

stintedness1827

restrictedness1828

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxix. 190 As the substance of God..is infinite and hath no kinde of limitation.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 282 Am I your Selfe, But as it were in sort, or limitation ?

1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §4 The natural dulness and limitation of our faculties.

1755 E. Young Centaur i. 39 Thro' the limitation of the human intellect.

1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 109 What seems to us limitation, may be, not limitation, but a mode of divine power.

1934 Rotarian Mar. 2/3 With the limitation of human judgment, it is not beyond the range of possibility to convict the innocent.

1997 C. Ripken, Jr. & M. Bryan Only Way I Know (1998) i. 13 She could type really fast. Old one-finger,..was pretty good given his limitation, but she blew him away in a contest we organized.

b. A point or respect in which a thing, esp. a person's ability, is limited; a shortcoming or weakness in capability or capacity; a defect or failing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or shortcoming

delinquency1606

shortcominga1687

limitation1732

dereliction1801

undershoot1934

1732 H. Felton Christian Faith Asserted iii. 78 Take Nature in its most perfect State it hath its Limitations.

1783 Vox Stellarum 43 I shall endeavour to be as copious upon the most useful informations as my limitations will admit.

1806 W. Tooke tr. G. J. Zollikofer Serm. Educ. I. xvii. 321 How frequently does he not endue the supreme being with his limitations, his weaknesses, his passions!

1877 Southern Rev. Jan. 95 Every art has its limitations.

1938 G. W. Allport Personality xv. 404 Psychography has a striking advantage to offset its limitations.

1970 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 80 204 The main limitation of this type of instrument is that it measures the field in only one surface element of the Sun at a time.

1990 Vanity Fair Oct. 82/3 What makes Bart a hero, lifting him above Dennis the Menace mischief and Charlie Brown schleppiness, is that he hoists himself above his limitations.

2006 Independent 30 Jan. 32/2 If I describe my son as having a learning difficulty, people underestimate his limitations and the help he needs.

Phrases

limitation of liability n. Law the limiting of legal or financial responsibility; esp. the limiting of the responsibility of shareholders for the debts of a trading company (cf. limited liability n. at limited adj. and n. Compounds); a limit of this kind as set or stipulated.

ΚΠ

1833 Morning Chron. 29 June The Bill of 1828..was an exceedingly vicious one, as far as regarded the limitation of liability.

1854 Bankers' Mag. July 360 Mr. Charles Babbage, late Lucasian professor at Cambridge, is favourable to alteration promoting limitation of liability.

1879 W. Langton Banks & Bank Shareholders 5 The privilege of limitation of liability having been granted later on to Discount Houses, it could not consistently be refused to Banks.

1928 G. G. Reynolds Distribution of Power to Regulate Interstate Carriers iii. 121 Making the initial carrier liable to the shipper for loss or damage..regardless of limitations of liability in the bill of lading.

1979 Fortune 23 Apr. 22/3 Such privity—the appointment of an incompetent master, for example—may defeat limitation of liability.

2007 R. Pinkett Campus CEO iv. 69 A sole proprietorship is legally the same entity as its owner; in that regard there is no limitation of liability.

Statute of Limitations n. any of the statutes fixing a period of limitation for actions of certain kinds.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative

Ragmanc1400

Statute of Sewers1571

Poynings' Act1613

Poynings' Law1622

Statute of Limitations1641

Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647

new tables1664

Habeas Corpus Act1705

Judicature Act1782

continuance act1863

stay-law1880

ripper1885

reception statute1931

thirty-year rule1966

sunshine law1968

1641 Speeches & Passages Parl. 264 The Subject is in all the materiall parts thereof, denyed the benefit of..the Statute of Limitations.

1701 R. Cocks Diary 2 May in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 105 They would in six years time..plead the Statute of Limitations.

1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 259 If it be a legal debt, this court being applied to for a discovery, will not prevent the statute of limitations from running.

1956 Columbia Law Rev. 56 610 It is the responsibility of the client..to commence suit before the running of the statute of limitations.

2006 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 Mar. b3 The only reason this case could be brought at this late in the game is because under the statute of limitations, there is a provision.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	limitation
释义	limitationn. Brit. /ˌlɪmᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌlɪməˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English limitacioun, late Middle English limitacyon, late Middle English lymytacioun, late Middle English lymytacyoun, late Middle English–1500s lymitacyon, late Middle English–1500s lymytacion, late Middle English– limitation, 1500s limitacion, 1500s limittacion, 1500s lymitacion, 1500s lymittation, 1500s lymytacyon, 1500s–1600s lymitation, 1500s–1700s limittation, 1600s limmitation; Scottish pre-1700 limitacioun, pre-1700 limitatioun, pre-1700 limtacioun, pre-1700 1700s– limitation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French limitation; Latin līmitātiōn-, līmitātiō. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman limitacioun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French limitacion, limitation (French limitation ) action of limiting something (1304 in Old French, originally with reference to limiting a person's authority), action of determining the boundaries of a country or territory (1322), border, boundary (late 14th cent.), in Anglo-Norman also period specified in a statute (end of the 13th cent. or earlier; frequently in legal use), appointed time (a1369 or earlier), limiting statement, provision (a1377 or earlier; frequently in legal use), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin līmitātiōn-, līmitātiō fixing of boundaries (for a plot of land), in post-classical Latin also boundary (13th cent. in a British source), limited condition, defined state (from 13th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), specific district assigned for preaching and teaching (14th cent. in British sources), act of designating, power to assign (from 14th cent. in British sources) < līmitāt- , past participial stem of līmitāre limit v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan limitació (1438), Spanish limitación (early 14th cent.), Portuguese limitação (1446 as †limitaçom ), Italian limitazione (a1380). Compare limit n., limiting n. With sense 1a compare limiter n. 1. 1. a. An allotted space; esp. the area assigned to a limiter (limiter n. 1), within which he is permitted to preach, hear confessions, and beg. Also: †the district or circuit of an itinerant officer; †the region belonging to a particular nation. Now historical.In quot. a1475: (figurative) one's allotted sphere. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > preaching > district of limitationc1405 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity fieldOE limitationc1405 hemisphere?1504 ambitudea1525 world1580 orb1598 spherea1616 ambit1649 scene1737 orblet1841 front1917 parish1940 ballpark1963 shtick1965 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] landc725 kithc888 thedec888 earthOE groundOE foldOE countryc1300 marchc1330 nationc1330 wonec1330 provincea1382 soila1400 strandc1400 terragec1440 room1468 limita1513 limitationa1527 seat1535 terrene1863 negara1955 negeri1958 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under other specific governors or officials sergeancy1371 limitation1535 commissionership1625 warnership1636 mairie1650 regency1656 grieveship1711 see land1732 residentship1800 banate1804 intendancy1810 field-cornetcy1826 inspectorate1883 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 851 The lymytour..seith his matyns and his holy thynges As he gooth in his lymytacioun. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 182 Oo frere grutchiþ aȝens anoþer, and fiȝtiþ wiþ him, whanne he prechiþ treuþe in his lymytacioun. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 12620 Whyl thow the holdest by resoun Wyth-Inne thy lymytacioun, Nat to Erryn, nyh nor ffer. a1500 (a1419) Jack Upland (Harl.) l. 179 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 62 [Ȝoure] lymytouris..wole not suffre o frere to begge in anoþeres lymytacioun. a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. D^v The sayde Ilands fall all without the limitation of Portingale. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 27 Auditours..yerely ridinge their seueral circuites and limittacions. 1581 B. Gilpin Godly Serm. 40 Some [pulpits] haue not had four sermons these xv. or xvi. years, since Friers left their limitations. 1608 E. Grimeston in tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xvi. 1391 In a certaine note sent in the letter written by the States to Frier Iohn Nayen and Vereyken, they had giuen a larger limitation therein, then otherwise was intended. 1855 R. Bell in Wks. Chaucer II. 74 Friars, being by their rule obliged to walk about within their limitation to beg their maintenance. 1886 Reliquary Apr. 209 The river which separates Norfolk from Suffolk should divide the limitation of the friars of Norwich from the limitation of those of Dunwich. 1993 Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 31 281 Friar John de Vylers, described as of Northampton convent and warden of the friars of Oxford, was commissioned as bishop's penitentiary within the limitation of either convent for one year. †b. An allotted time. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > definite period fecc1000 limita1616 limitationa1616 perioda1751 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 139 You haue stood your Limitation . View more context for this quotation 2. †a. A warrant, authorization, or order. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > authorization warrant1387 limitation?1410 authorization1472 fiant1534 passport1571 warranty1591 ?1410 T. Hoccleve Ballad to Somer l. 51 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 66 By our Stywardes limitacioun..Warned yee wern for the dyner arraye Ageyn thorsday next. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 70 (MED) Prelatis..commaunden þat no man schal preche þe gospel but at here wille & lymytacion. 1450 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1889) 212 (MED) So that the payne be sequestryd in the handes of the said Fader Pryour, and expendyd be the limitacyon of My Lord of Caunterbury. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 33 (MED) Fyschers þat bryng See fysche in-to this cite be not Osted ne Inned at any fischers housz of this cite, but at othur Innes at lymytacion of the maiour. b. A limiting statement, rule, or circumstance; a provision. In later use chiefly in legal contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > instance of conditionc1380 protestationc1390 butc1405 restrictiona1450 limitationc1475 if1532 conditionary1678 reservation1719 whereas1795 yes but1870 string1888 c1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Tiber.) l. 22316 (MED) Lakkynge dyscrescyoun, Thow madeste a lymytacyoun, Affermynge, by a maner slouthe, My dyrk parte wher voyde off trouthe. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 The lymitacyon expressed in the statute of Westmynster. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 134 This limitation is suspected of some not to bee sounde. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 34 That limitation therefore of after setling is a meere tautology. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity x. 33 Let him mince it as well as he can with mental limitations and restrictions. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 10 Apr. (1974) VIII. 160 So as that he that goes may go with limitations and rules to fallow. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. viii. 193 I shall have little further to add, but some Limitations..with regard to particular Cases. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 34 This limitation was made by parliament, that through the Princess Sophia an inheritable line, not only was to be continued in future, but..through her it was to connected with the old stock of inheritance. View more context for this quotation 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. xi. 261 Most of the provinces coupled their acquiescence with limitations which rendered it of little worth. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ii. 53 He was heir to the earldom of Tyrone according to the limitations of the patent. 1949 Labor Arbitration Rep. 11 56/2 There is no such limitation in the contract pertaining to the suspension period complained of. 2009 B. E. Hood in Guide to US Real Estate Investing (Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate) xxvi. 186/1 Except for certain limitations in the US Constitution, no uniformity of taxation is required of US States and localities. 3. Limit; border, boundary; confine. Cf. limit n. 1, 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit markOE measurea1375 bound1393 sizec1420 banka1425 limita1425 limitationa1475 stint1509 within one's tether?1523 confine1548 tropic?1594 scantling1597 gauge1600 mound1605 boundalsa1670 meta1838 parameter1967 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s) > border(s) frontier1413 limitationa1475 skirt1488 limity1523 rind1530 border1535 ambit1597 verges1680 county line1776 land-board1790 a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 12537 (MED) Myn Errour Hath no lymytaciouns. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxviii. 344 They of the..marches and lymitacions of the realme of Castell, Came..and made homage. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 1 To the conservation of the body of mankynde within the lymitation of helth. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 61 Numa Pompilius..did cause as well a publik perambulation to be made throughout his whole kingdom as priuate limitations & bounds betwixt partie & partie. 1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 23 The Gouernment, Religion, Territories and Limitations. 1756 Monthly Rev. Sept. 228 It is rebellion to resist the supreme Governors, whilst they keep within the natural limitations of supreme power. 1796 H. L. Piozzi Diary Nov. in Thraliana (1942) II. 968 They are changing the names & altering the Limitations in all the four continents I think. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. viii. 162 She knew the limitations of her own powers too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit. View more context for this quotation 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic i. 25 When the use of words is not checked by a frequent recurrence in thought to the precise limitations of their meaning. 1916 W. H. Varnum Arts & Crafts Design iii. 30 It is suggested that it is desirable to keep clay forms within the limitations of two divisions. 1978 J. Goldstein in P. M. Lipscomb Noise & Audiol. i. 6 There are limitations in the frequencies the human ear can perceive. 4. a. The action of limiting or placing a limit on something, constraint, restriction; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] limiting1391 moderation1429 bridlingc1443 limitation1483 confine1548 restriction1554 limit1572 prescription1604 bounding1607 circumscriptiona1616 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 handcuff1814 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation definitionc1386 limiting1391 moderation1429 limitation1483 restriction1554 restraint1566 limit1572 stint1593 prescription1604 stintance1605 bounding1607 confining1608 confine1609 circumscriptiona1616 definement1643 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 narrowing1871 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 217 A Lymytacion, limitacio. 1533 T. More Apol. ix, in Wks. 865/2 They..leaue not one man for Goddes parte thys eyghte hundred yeare paste by theyr owne lymitacion. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 20 §1 Their heires inheritable by the limitacion of suche giftes. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 76 This absolute limitation and restraint of Satan. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 63 The Monarch himself must be Judge, and then farewel Limitation. 1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 250 It is here, without any restriction or limitation, applied, by the inspired Writer, to our Saviour Christ. 1786 S. Johnson Everlasting Punishment Ungodly 285 What can be more decisively clear than the limitation of these blessings to the believing only? 1840 F. A. Rauch Psychology ii. i. 186 Every sensation presupposes the limitation of an activity, and a feeling of this limitation. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. iii. 623 A fresh limitation of the succession to the throne was made towards the end of the reign of William III. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 272 The limitation of special families and sub-orders to special Continents. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 259 They..had become tired and impatient of that modest contentment which rewards the limitation of desires. 1971 S. Kennedy Murphy's Bed ii. 103 So far, this discussion of Beckett's theories of Greek myth,..[has] been restricted to his own statements,... Such a limitation was deliberate. 2001 M. J. Phillips Lochner Court, Myth & Reality i. 15 The limitation of governmental power meant increasing liberty for the people. †b. spec. The action of determining the boundaries (of a country, etc.) or contour (of a figure, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > determination of boundary meting1543 mereing1574 boundage1610 abuttallingc1628 limitation1677 demarcation1728 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 5 Letters Patent granted by the King for the Limitation of Virginia. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 31/2 Limitation we call the determining or fixing the sweeps of all the lines, the projections of the angles..and the depression of every hollow. 5. Law. The specification of a time period (or the period specified) within which some benefit may be enjoyed or an action must be performed. a. The statutory specification of a period, or the period specified, within which legal proceedings may be brought. Cf. Statute of Limitations n. at Phrases. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > condition of being pending > limit of time for action to be raised prescription1449 limitation1527 negative prescription1838 1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. cxxxii (heading) Limitacion. 1598 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) 127/1 Limitation is an assignement of a space of time, within which, he that will sue for any lands or hereditants, ought to prove that he or his auncester was seised of the thing demaunded, or otherwise he shall not maintaine his sute or action. 1676 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War (new ed.) iv. 462 This Treason had so long out-faced the Law, and the Justice of the Kingdom, that if there had been a time of limitation, there would have been no time nor place left to punishment. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 188 In all these possessory actions there is a time of limitation settled, beyond which no man shall avail himself of the possession of himself or his ancestors. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 250 Sixty years..is the longest period of limitation assigned by the statute of Henry VIII. 1837 Legal Observer 14 Jan. 194/2 The period of limitation is four years in actions of trespass, assault, battery, wounding and imprisonment; and two years in actions for words spoken. 1856 P. R. Grattan Rep. Supreme Court of Appeals Virginia 12 585 The effect of the whole taken together would seem to preserve..the preexisting periods of limitation. 1909 Rep. Supreme Court Nebraska 79 Index 884 Limitation of an action for malicious prosecution does not begin to run until the criminal case is dismissed, or the prosecution terminated. 1924 M. Teresa Legislation for Women in Oregon ii. 22 The defendant pleaded the ten year limitation on the action. 1970 Insurance Counsel Jrnl. Apr. 259/1 The handwriting is clearly on the wall insofar as the limitation of actions against attorneys is concerned. 1989 D. W. Louisell & H. Williams Med. Malpractice (new ed.) I. xiii. 13-6 (footnote) The limitation applicable to negligence actions was applied in a case involving blood clots caused by birth control medication. 2005 Mod. Law Rev. 68 851 The period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud. b. The specification of a period, or the period specified, for the continuance of an estate, the operation of a law, the term of a mortgage, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > a limitation or condition of > limitation of time limitation1592 society > law > [noun] > a law > period of operation of limitation1821 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §44 Euerie estate either executed maintenant, or executorie by limitation of use, which vesteth in possession by vertue of the Statute of 27 H. 8. 1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 12 An Act of Parliament..for cutting and conveying a River from any part of Middlesex or Hertfordshire, to the Citie of London, with a limitation of ten yeeres time for the performance thereof. a1648 J. Godbolt Rep. Certain Cases Courts of Rec. Westm. (1652) 351 The first Question is, If the Remainder doth continue: The second is, If it be a Perpetuity, or a Limitation. 1706 Boston News-let. 3 June 5/1 I think it proper to recommend to you the Reviving of the Militia Act, which expired by its own Limitation in the year 1704. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 155 When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for any longer time than till the contingency happens upon which the estate is to fail, this is denominated a limitation. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 497 The future limitation being only for the life of a person in esse. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 245 The limitation of the act was to three years, or the end of the next general assembly. 1908 Lawyers Rep. Annotated 11 744/2 Does the last payment on a past-due debt secured by a mortgage,..fix the period from which the limitation applicable to the mortgage is to be computed? 1909 Eng. Rep. 94 638 These words, and ‘for want of such issue,’ shall never raise an estate-tail by implication in him, to whom the limitation was for life. 1996 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 45 675 All that the expiry of the period of limitation does is to exclude a claim by the proper owner. †c. The settlement or disposition of an estate by a special provision or with a special modification or modifications; the modification or provision itself. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > types of limitation1651 lease and release1670 innocent conveyance1811 1651 J. March Amicus Reipublicæ 5 I am not ignorant, that when I give Lands to a man & his Heirs, the Law saith, that the word [Heirs] is by way of limitation, not of purchase. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 193 A tenancy in common may..be created by express limitation in a deed. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 271 By the limitation of the will, he was to make a grant of the rent. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 73 The..failure of the objects of the several limitations. 6. a. The condition of being limited; limitedness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount limitation1597 limitedness1631 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] limitation1597 limitedness1631 confinedness1639 narrowness1641 contractedness1659 inextension1827 stintedness1827 restrictedness1828 boundedness1886 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > quality of being restricted or limited limitation1597 limitedness1631 confinedness1639 contractedness1659 stintedness1827 restrictedness1828 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxix. 190 As the substance of God..is infinite and hath no kinde of limitation. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 282 Am I your Selfe, But as it were in sort, or limitation ? View more context for this quotation 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §4 The natural dulness and limitation of our faculties. 1755 E. Young Centaur i. 39 Thro' the limitation of the human intellect. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 109 What seems to us limitation, may be, not limitation, but a mode of divine power. 1934 Rotarian Mar. 2/3 With the limitation of human judgment, it is not beyond the range of possibility to convict the innocent. 1997 C. Ripken, Jr. & M. Bryan Only Way I Know (1998) i. 13 She could type really fast. Old one-finger,..was pretty good given his limitation, but she blew him away in a contest we organized. b. A point or respect in which a thing, esp. a person's ability, is limited; a shortcoming or weakness in capability or capacity; a defect or failing. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or shortcoming delinquency1606 shortcominga1687 limitation1732 dereliction1801 undershoot1934 1732 H. Felton Christian Faith Asserted iii. 78 Take Nature in its most perfect State it hath its Limitations. 1783 Vox Stellarum 43 I shall endeavour to be as copious upon the most useful informations as my limitations will admit. 1806 W. Tooke tr. G. J. Zollikofer Serm. Educ. I. xvii. 321 How frequently does he not endue the supreme being with his limitations, his weaknesses, his passions! 1877 Southern Rev. Jan. 95 Every art has its limitations. 1938 G. W. Allport Personality xv. 404 Psychography has a striking advantage to offset its limitations. 1970 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 80 204 The main limitation of this type of instrument is that it measures the field in only one surface element of the Sun at a time. 1990 Vanity Fair Oct. 82/3 What makes Bart a hero, lifting him above Dennis the Menace mischief and Charlie Brown schleppiness, is that he hoists himself above his limitations. 2006 Independent 30 Jan. 32/2 If I describe my son as having a learning difficulty, people underestimate his limitations and the help he needs. Phrases limitation of liability n. Law the limiting of legal or financial responsibility; esp. the limiting of the responsibility of shareholders for the debts of a trading company (cf. limited liability n. at limited adj. and n. Compounds); a limit of this kind as set or stipulated. ΚΠ 1833 Morning Chron. 29 June The Bill of 1828..was an exceedingly vicious one, as far as regarded the limitation of liability. 1854 Bankers' Mag. July 360 Mr. Charles Babbage, late Lucasian professor at Cambridge, is favourable to alteration promoting limitation of liability. 1879 W. Langton Banks & Bank Shareholders 5 The privilege of limitation of liability having been granted later on to Discount Houses, it could not consistently be refused to Banks. 1928 G. G. Reynolds Distribution of Power to Regulate Interstate Carriers iii. 121 Making the initial carrier liable to the shipper for loss or damage..regardless of limitations of liability in the bill of lading. 1979 Fortune 23 Apr. 22/3 Such privity—the appointment of an incompetent master, for example—may defeat limitation of liability. 2007 R. Pinkett Campus CEO iv. 69 A sole proprietorship is legally the same entity as its owner; in that regard there is no limitation of liability. Statute of Limitations n. any of the statutes fixing a period of limitation for actions of certain kinds. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative Ragmanc1400 Statute of Sewers1571 Poynings' Act1613 Poynings' Law1622 Statute of Limitations1641 Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647 new tables1664 Habeas Corpus Act1705 Judicature Act1782 continuance act1863 stay-law1880 ripper1885 reception statute1931 thirty-year rule1966 sunshine law1968 1641 Speeches & Passages Parl. 264 The Subject is in all the materiall parts thereof, denyed the benefit of..the Statute of Limitations. 1701 R. Cocks Diary 2 May in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 105 They would in six years time..plead the Statute of Limitations. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 259 If it be a legal debt, this court being applied to for a discovery, will not prevent the statute of limitations from running. 1956 Columbia Law Rev. 56 610 It is the responsibility of the client..to commence suit before the running of the statute of limitations. 2006 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 Mar. b3 The only reason this case could be brought at this late in the game is because under the statute of limitations, there is a provision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1405
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