relimitationn.
/ˌriːlɪmᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrilɪməˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Law. Now rare.
The action or an act of assigning an interest in property, subject to the terms of a settlement or other disposition; (also) a document detailing this.
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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 > anew
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1787 J. J. Powell Ess. Learning Powers 280 Re-limitation with power of revocation and to limit new uses, was not warranted by the first or second indenture.
1841 H. Chance Treat. Powers II. 111 The relimitation too of the mother's life estate either must have been void or could have taken effect, it seems, only on an exercise of the joint power.
1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 255 Cases of..clerical error, such..as the insertion of a wrong name in a relimitation.
1915 Columbia Law Rev. 15 462 The grantee of the power by the single act of relimitation accomplishes the double effect of divesting the estate over in default and creating a new but exactly commensurate estate in the same person.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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