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Definition of Statute of limitations
1. Noun. A statute prescribing the time period during which legal action can be taken.
Definition of Statute of limitations
1. Noun. (legal) Any law that sets a time limit, after which a person may not be tried for a crime, or after which some other legal action may not take place ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statute Of Limitations
Literary usage of Statute of limitations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"As to reviving a debt, within the Statute of Limitations, under a trust for ...
Effect of time in Equity by analogy to the Statute of Limitations (a), [p. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"MO Mr. Reverdy Johnson, for plaintiff in error : The statute of limitations is
a bar to th" plaintiff's right of recovery, unless the exist ence of the late ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"The question made in the case is, Are the judgments dormant by the statute of
limitations of the territory of Oklahoma for failure to issue execution ..."
4. Pacific Reporter by West Publishing Company (1886)
"Tlie plea of the statute of limitations cannot avail third persons as against
... 1023; yet an agent may plead the statute of limitations lor his principal. ..."
5. Handbook of the Law of Trusts by George Gleason Bogert (1921)
"REMEDY BARRED BY THE statute of limitations 127. Where there are no statutes of
limitations expressly applying to equitable causes of action, equity follows ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"The statute of limitations ran against the proprietors of the American colonies:
Yard v. Ocean Beach Ass'n, 49 NJ Eq. 306. In most States the statute runs ..."
7. Digest of the United States Supreme Court Reports: U. S. Vols. 1-206. L. Ed by United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court, United States (1908)
"[The statute of limitations of 32 Henry VIII. chap. 2, is in force in the province
of Pennsylvania, and sixty years' possession, if adverse, is a bar. ..."
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