Statute of Limitation
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The Law of Torts
The English Statute of Limitations (traced to the reign of James I) fixing time limits within which actions for various torts must be brought.
Two years.
Four years.
Suspension of the statute by disabilities.
For Phormio
Law defining the time within which claims should be brought, explained as five years.
Take now, please, the statute of limitations.
For in the case of those who were wronged, he thought that a period of five years was enough to enable them to recover what was their due;
But this man Apollodorus, when more than twenty years have gone by, demands that you pay more heed to his malicious charges than to the laws in accordance with which you have sworn to give judgement.