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a1794 C. Fearne Posthumous Wks. (1797) 265 He may bar his estate tail and remainder over,..subject to the widow's estate for life, which may either be preserved, or may be re-limited to her.

1850 R. H. Coote Treat. on Law of Mortgage (ed. 3) vi. i. 526 The case was decided on the ground that the difference between the limitation of the equity of redemption in the mortgage deed, and that contained in the deed of assignment of the mortgage, was evidence of intention to relimit such equity.

1884 Law Times 9 Feb. 262/2 He executed..the resettlement... The estate was thereby re-limited to uses under which the plaintiff took only a life interest.

1925 Columbia Law Rev. 25 611 The terms of the original settlement still remained on foot and were paramount to the dispositions of the resettlement unless released and relimited by the resettlement.

1907 J. Watson Philos. Basis Relig. vi. 152 An appeal is made to ‘experience’, but, instead of taking it as a whole, it is arbitrarily limited and re-limited until it fades away into the barest and vaguest of abstractions.

1929 Frederick (Maryland) Post 19 Apr. 1/7 The second Dawes committee has failed in its purpose to relimit German reparation for the damage of the World War.

1936 German Q. 9 112 He does have to reorganize, reshape, and relimit almost his entire conceptual mass.

1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 7 Nov. a11/2 The dominant political theme of the century's tenth decade—re-limiting government.

2002 Yale Law Jrnl. 111 1413 I would support proposals made by Michael Graetz to relimit the reach of the income tax to the rich and to impose a value added tax..on everybody else.