- words of purchase or of limitation
- The distinction between marking out the bounds of an estate conveyed and describing the means of acquiring an estate. 28 Am J2d Est § 102.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
words of purchase or of limitation
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