e tail (see REAL PROPERTY).

CONDITIONAL LIMITATION, in law, a phrase used in two senses. (1) The
qualification annexed to the grant of an estate or interest in land,
providing for the determination of that grant or interest upon a
particular contingency happening. An estate with such a limitation can
endure only until the particular contingency happens; it is a present
interest, to be divested on a future contingency. The grant of an estate
to a man so long as he is parson of Dale, or while he continues
unmarried, are instances of conditional limitations of estates for life.
(2) A future use or interest in land limited to take effect upon a given
contingency. For instance, a grant to N. and his heirs to the use of A.,
provided that when C. returns from Rome the land shall go to the use of
B. in fee simple. B. is said to take under a conditional limitation,
operating by executory devise or springing or shifting use (see
REMAINDER, REVERSION).

CONDOM, a town of south-western France, capital of an arrondissement in
the department of Gers, on the right bank of the Baise, at its junction
with the Gele, 27 m. by road N.N.W. of Auch. Pop. (1906) town, 4046;
commune, 6435. Two stone bridges unite Condom with its suburb on the
left bank of the river. The streets are small and narrow and several old
houses still remain, but to the east the town is bordered by pleasant
promenades. The Gothic church of St Pierre, its chief building, was
erected from 1506 to 1521, and was till 1790 a cathedral. The interior,
which is without aisles or transept, is surrounded by lateral chapels.
On the south is a beautifully sculptured portal. An adjoining cloister
of the 16th century is occupied by the hotel de ville. The former
episcopal palace with its graceful Gothic chapel is used as a law-court.
The sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a communal
college, are among the public institutions. Brandy-distilling,
wood-sawing, iron-founding and the manufacture of stills are among the
industries. The town is a centre for the sale of Armagnac brandy and has
commerce in grain and flour, much of which is river-borne.

Condom (_Condomus_) was founded in the 8th century, but in 840 was
sacked and burnt by the Normans. A monastery built here c. 900 by the
wife of Sancho of Gascony was soon destroyed by fire, but in 1011 was
rebuilt, by Hugh, bishop of Agen. Round this abbey the town grew up, and
in 1317 was made into an episcopa