Lat. Definition, or, more strictly, limiting or bounding; as in the max-im of the civil law: Omnis definitio pericu-losa est, parum est enim ut non subverti possit, (Dig. 50, 17, 202;) h e., the attempt to bring the law within the boundaries of precise definitions ls hazardous, as there are hut few cases in which such a limitation can-not be subverted