Statute of Limitation · Atlas

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The Law of Torts19th Century · English

The English Statute of Limitations (traced to the reign of James I) fixing time limits within which actions for various torts must be brought.

It has often been remarked that, as matter of policy, the periods of limitation fixed by the statute of James are unreasonably long for modern usage;

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The operation of the Statute of Limitation is further subject to the exception of concealed fraud, derived from the doctrine and practice of the Court of Chancery, which, whether it thought itself bound by the terms of the statute, or only acted in analogy to it, considerably modified its literal application.

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In trover the statute runs from demand on and refusal by the defendant, whether the defendant were the first converter of the plaintiff’s goods or not.

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For PhormioClassical · Greek

Law defining the time within which claims should be brought, explained as five years.

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.

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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;

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Take now, please, the statute of limitations.

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