Abstract. It is well known, as follows from the Banach-Steinhaus theorem, that if a sequence {y n } ∞ n=1 of linear continuous functionals in a Fréchet space converges pointwise to a linear functional Y, Y (x) = lim n→∞ y n , x for all x, then Y is actually continuous. In this article we prove that in a Fréchet space the continuity of Y still holds if Y is the finite part of the limit of y n , x as n → ∞. We also show that the continuity of finite part limits holds for other classes of topological vector spaces, such as LF-spaces, DFS-spaces, and DFS * -spaces, and give examples where it does not hold.