year is ended ; and where a shorter time is 
limited by any penal statute, the prosecu- 
tion must be within that time. 31 Eliz. 
c. 5. 
All actions of trespass, of assault, battery, 
wounding, imprisonment, or any of them, 
are to be commenced within four years 
next after the cause of siicli actions or suits, 
and not after; 21 James I. c. 16. All ac- 
tions of trespass, qitare clausum fregit ; all 
actions of trespass, detinue, trover, and re- 
plevin ; all actions of account, and upon the 
case, (other than such accounts as concern 
the trade of merchandise between mer- 
chant 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 as- 
sault, menace, battery, wounding, and im- 
prisonment, shall be commenced within the 
time and limitation as followeth, and not 
after ; that is to say, the said actions upon 
the case (other tlian for slander), and the 
said actions for account, and the said ac- 
tions for trespass, debt, detinue, and reple- 
vin, and the said action for trespass quui-e 
clausum fregit, within six years after the 
cause of such action ; 21 James I. c. 16. In 
all these statutes there is an exception in 
relation to infants, lunatics, and femes co- 
verts, allowing tliem a furtlier time after 
they are in a situation which enables them 
to sue. As to the exception with respect 
to merchant’s accounts, it extends to ac- 
tions on accounts current only, in which the 
giving credit on one side is an acknowledge- 
ment of tiie 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 alt the articles are on 
one side, the account is not taken out of 
the statute. An acknowledgment of the 
debt prevents the operation of the statute 
of limitations, and also a payment upon ac- 
count; but as it is convenient that suits 
should not be delayed so long that vouchers 
cannot be produced, Settlements should re- 
gularly 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 regrdarly entered, and continued up- 
on the record, the suit may be effectually 
prosecuted long after, and being commenc- 
ed within time, the action may be main- 
tained out. This is in conscience rather a 
mode of evading the statute. It is gene- 
rally considered as an unfair defence to re- 
ly upon the statute, when the party has the 
actual means of knowing whether the debt 
is due, and therefore a very slight acknow- 
ledgment removes the objection to the suit. 
LIMNING, the art of painting in water 
colours, in contradistinction to painting, 
which is done in oil colours. See Paint- 
ing. 
LIMODORUM, in botany, a genus of 
the Gynandria Diandria class and order. 
Natural order of Orchidese. Essential cha- 
racter : nectary one-leafed, concave, pedi- 
celled, 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 ; pe- 
tals five ; berry three-celled ; seeds solitary. 
There are seven species, of which L. penta- 
phylla, five-leaved limonia, is an elegant 
fragrant shrub, very common in most uncul- 
tivated 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 fragrant; birds eat 
the berries greedily. 
LIMOSELLA, in botany, a genus of 
the Didynamia Angiospermia class and or- 
der. Natural order of Preci®. Lysima- 
chitfe, Jussieu. Essential character : calyx 
five-cleft; corolla five-cleft, equal ; stamina 
approximating by pairs; capsule one-celled, 
twp-valved, many-seeded. There are two 
species, viz. L. aquatica, common mud- 
wort, or bastard plantain; and L. dian- 
dria. 
LINCONIA, in botany, a genus of the 
Pentrandria Digynia class and order. Es- 
sential character ; petals five, with a necta- 
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. 
LINDERA, in botany, so named from 
J. Linder, a Sw'ede, a genus of the Hexan- 
dria Monogynia class and order. E.ssential 
character : corolla six-petalled ; capsule. 
There is only one species, viz. L. umbellata, 
a native of Japan. 
LINDERNI.'i, in botany, a genus of 
the Didyuamia Angiospermia class and or- 
der. Natural order of Personat®. Scro- 
phulari®, Jussieu. Essential character : 
calyx five-parted; corolla ringent, with the 
upper lip very short ; stamina the two lower 
with a terminating tooth, and a sub-lateral 
