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them, are to be commenced within four 

 years next after the cause of such actions 

 or suits, and not after : 21 James I. c. 16. 

 All actions of trespass, quare clattswnfre- 

 git , all actions of trespass, detinue, tro- 

 ver, and replevin ; ail actions of account, 

 and upon the case, (other than such ac- 

 counts as concern the trade of merchan- 

 dise between merchant and merchant) ; 

 all actions of debt, grounded upon any 

 lending-, or contract without specialty 

 (that is, not being by deed or under seal) ; 

 all actions of debt for arrearages of rent ; 

 and all actions of assault, menace, bat- 

 tery, wounding, and imprisonment, shall 

 be commenced within the time and limi- 

 tation as followeth, and not after : that is 

 to say, the said actions upon the case 

 (other than for slander), and the said ac- 

 tions for account, and the said actions for 

 trespass, debt, detinue, and replevin, and 

 the said action for trespass quare clausi/m 

 fregit, within six years after the cause of 

 such action : 21 James I. c. 16. In all 

 these statutes there is an exception in re- 

 lation to infants, lunatics, and femes co- 

 verts, allowing them a further time after 

 they are in a situation which enables them 

 to sue. As to the exception with respect 

 to merchants' accounts, it extends to ac- 

 tions on accounts current only, in which 

 the giving credit on one side is an ac- 

 knowledgment of the debt on the other ; 

 but when the account is settled between 

 merchant and merchant, it must be sued 

 for like any other debt ; and if all the ar- 

 ticles are on one side, the account is not 

 taken out of the statute. An acknowledg- 

 ment of the debt prevents the operation 

 of the statute of limitations, and also a 

 payment upon account ; but as it is con- 

 venient that suits should not be delayed 

 so long that vouchers cannot be produced, 

 settlements should regularly be enforced. 

 A writ also may be sued out to save the 

 statute of limitation, as it is called, and 

 though never sued, yet, if it is regularly 

 entered, and continued upon the record, 

 the suit may be effectually prosecuted 

 long after, and being commenced within 

 time, the action may be maintained out. 

 This is in conscience rather a mode 

 of evading the statute. It is generally 

 considered as an' unfair defence to rely 

 upon the statute, when the party has the 

 actual means of knowing whether the 

 debt is due, and therefore a very slight 

 acknowledgment removes the objection 

 to the suit. 



LIMNING, the art of painting in water 

 colours, in contradistinction to painiing 



which is done in oil colours. See PAINT- 

 ING 



LIMODORUM, in botany, a genus of 

 the Gynaiulria Diandria class and order. 

 Natural order of Orchideae. Essei.tial 

 character : nectary one-leafed, concave, 

 pedicelied, within the lowest petal. There 

 are thirteen species. 



LIMONIA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Decandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Essential character: calyx five-parted; 

 petals five ; berry three-celled ; seeds so- 

 litary. There are seven species, of which 

 L. pentaphylla, five-leaved limonia, is an 

 elegant fragrant shrub, very common in 

 most uncultivated lands in Coromandel, 

 but chiefly under large trees, where birds 

 have dropped the seeds. It flowers all the 

 year. The whole plant, when drying in 

 the shade, diffuses a pleasant permanent 

 scent ; the flowers are exquisitely fra- 

 grant ; birds eat the berries greedily. 



L1MOSELLA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Didynamia Angiospermia class and order. 

 Natural order of Precis. Lysimachix, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx five- 

 cleft ; corolla five-cleft, equal ; stamina 

 approximating by pairs ; capsule one- 

 celled, two-valved, many-seeded. There 

 are two species, viz. L. aquatica, common 

 mud-wort, or bastard plantain ; and L. 

 dia.idria. 



LINCONIA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Pentandria Digynia class and order. Es- 

 tial character ; petals five, with a nerta- 

 reous excavation at the base; capsule 

 two-celled There is but one species, 

 viz. L. alopecuroidea, a native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope, in watery places among 

 the mountains. 



L1NDERA, in botany, so named from 

 J. Linder, a Swede, a genus of the Hex- 

 andria Monogynia class and order. Es- 

 sential character : corolla six-petalled ; 

 capsule. There is only one species, viz. 

 L. umbellata, a native of Japan. 



LINDERNIA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Didynamia Angiospermia class and order. 

 Natural order of Personate. Scrophu- 

 lanae, Jussieu. Essential character : ca- 

 lyx five-parted ; corolla ringent, with the 

 upper lip very short ; stamina the two 

 lower with a terminating tooth, and a sub- 

 lateral anther ; capsule one-celled. There 

 are three species. 



LINE, in geometry, a quantity extend- 

 ed in length only, without any breadth or 

 thickness. It is formed by the flux or 

 motion of a point. See FLUXIOK. 



LINES in perspective, are, 1. Geome- 

 trical line, which is a right line drawn in 



