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Definition of Limitations
1. limitation [n] - See also: limitation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limitations
Literary usage of Limitations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"Up to that time the Statute of limitations could not begin to run in bar of ару
action dependent on this title. The plaintiff could not sue or recover in ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"3.] A DEBT, which could not be recovered in an action against a plea of the
Statute of Bankruptcy. As to reviving a debt, within the Statute of limitations, ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"and alternate writ of mandamus had become dormant and were barred by the statute
of § the supreme court of Oklahoma. e limitations. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1921)
"limitations upon the Government as a Whole. In considering limitations derived
from the separation of powers, upon the power of the national government to ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"... and should have held that there was no evidence to show that the railroad
company had lost by abandonment or by the statute of limitations the right ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Material requirements have always imposed limitations upon scientific research
and teaching. On the other hand, the appeals of science for freedom from the ..."
7. Pacific Reporter by West Publishing Company (1886)
"But the genera] doctrine is that in an action for damages and abatement of a
nuisance the statute of limitations will not be considered to have begun to run ..."
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