Ager Limitatus definition
Ager Limitatus means, literally, “fixed field” and in Roman-Dutch law beaconed land rectilinearly bounded is ager limitatus and, abutting a river or sea, there can be no extension of this land area to midstream nor is the owner entitled to alluvion. On the other hand land bounded curvilinearly by a river or the sea is normally “ager non-limitatus” which in Roman-Dutch law is entitled to alluvion and by a principle of English law adopted in South Africa there is a rebuttable presumption that the land so bounded in relation to a river extends to midstream. In respect of the above there is no doubt: not unless a piece of land has a boundary relating to a river or the sea and in addition there are certain features relating to the numerical data, inclusive of the area, that appear in the title deed