Abstract.We show that inverse limits exist in the category of L spaces and positive linear contractions between them. This result generalizes the wellknown classical results for inverse systems of Choquet Simplexes and of L-balls, but our proof is simple and more purely geometrical. The result finds physical application in the study of random fields.Let Z be a Banach lattice with positive cone C and norm || • ||. We say that Z is an AL-space (short for Abstract Lebesgue space) iff || • || is affine on C. See [7, §8, p. 112] for further information about ^4F-spaces.Let / be a linear map between two ,4F-spaces Z2 and Zx . We say that f is a contraction iff \\fx\\x < ||jt||2 for all x e C2. A positive linear contraction f:Z2^Zx is called an AL-morphism .Note that for an v4Z.-morphism / we have ||/jc||, < ||x||2 for all x e Z2 since ll/xii^iiiAi.ii^n/ixy^iiWjii^iwi.; however, an ^IL-morphism need not be a lattice homomorphism, an isometry, or even one-to-one.Let F be a directed set, and suppose that we have an AL-space Zi associated with each / e D and an v47_-morphism fi : Z( -» Z associated with each pair i, j e D where t> j .If this system is consistent in the sense that fji = fjk fu for a11 i>k> j in D, then we call (Z(., f¡¡)D an inverse ,4L-system. Now suppose further that Z is an ,4L-space, and f. : Z -► Z( for i e D are /4F-morphisms satisfying fj -fji fi for a11 ' > J in D ■ Then we call (Z , f.)D a prefix of (Z(., fn)D .