1) Dialogue of Plato
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1) Neglect 2) Nonobservance
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n. the legal doctrine that a legal right or claim will not be enforced or allowed if a long delay in asserting the right or claim has prejudiced the adverse party (hurt the opponent) as a sort of "legal ambush." Examples: a) knowing the correct property line, Oliver Owner fails to bring a lawsuit to establish title to a portion of real estate until...
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[Bogotá] Laches is a neighbourhood (barrio) of Bogotá, Colombia. It is in the Santa Fe district in east-central Bogotá, on the edge of the forest reserve. In fact, some 4,500 inhabitants, mostly from the poorer stata of society, live in the forest reserve area in illegal dwellings. ==Borders== Laches lies on the edge of the eastern hills...
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[equity] Laches (z, {respell|LA|chəz}, like `latches`; z, {respell|LAY|chəz}; Law French: `remissness`, `slackness`, from Old French laschesse) is an `unreasonable delay pursuing a right or claim... in a way that prejudices the [opposing] party`. When asserted in litigation, it is an equitable defense, that is, a defense to a claim for an...
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negligence or undue delay in fulfilling legal duty
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• (n.) Alt. of Lache
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(from the article `Plato`) ...which professes to repeat a funeral oration learned from Aspasia, Pericles` mistress, is apparently meant as a satire on the patriotic distortion ...
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a rich Athenian aristocrat who played a leading part in the first phase of the Peloponnesian War.
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In law, neglect and unreasonable delay in enforcing an equitable right. If the court is satisfied that a plaintiff has taken an unnecessarily long time in pursuing a case, the action...
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Pronounced 'lay-cheese', this means unacceptable delay in pursuing a claim in equity but applies only where there are no fixed statutory time limits. See Limitation.
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(n) Doctrine of Laches limits the legal claim of a person, by virtue of any undue delay on his part in enforcing his legal right. For example, a person failed to initiate any action to recover his property, after knowing that it was used by another person. He lose his right to claim the property when he initiate the process to recover his property ...
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In law, laches is neglect and unreasonable delay in enforcing an equitable right. If a plaintiff with full knowledge of the facts takes an unnecessarily long time to bring an action (e.g. to set aside a contract obtained by fraud) the court will not assist him; hence the maxim 'the law will not help those who sleep on their rights'. No set period i...
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In law, neglect and unreasonable delay in enforcing an equitable right. If the court is satisfied that a plaintiff has taken an unnecessarily long time in pursuing a case, the action may be struck out
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the failure to diligently assert a right, which results in a refusal to allow relief
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