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Definition of Laches
1. n. Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim.
Definition of Laches
1. Noun. (legal) Legal doctrine that a person who waits too long to bring a claim alleging a wrong shall not be permitted to seek an equitable remedy because the delay prejudiced the moving party. Sleeping on one's rights. ¹
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Definition of Laches
1. undue delay in asserting a legal right [n LACHES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laches
Literary usage of Laches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Where no excuse exists, the effect of laches is the same in equity as at law. 3.
... laches may be excused from the obscurity of the transaction. 6. ..."
2. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1905)
"97 And it is further held "that the onus of showing such notice or knowledge as,
when coupled with long acquiescence, would amount to laches, ..."
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"I To constitute laches to bar a suit there must be knowledge, actual or Imputable,
of the facts which should have prompted ac- ! tion or, if there were ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"An answer or plea to take advantage of laches should be sufficient clearly to
raise that defense and to contain the proper averments.1 6. ..."
5. The Law of Unfair Competition and Trademarks: With Chapters on Good-will by Harry Dwight Nims (1917)
"laches, in the Sense of Mere Delay. — The proprietor of a trade name has no occasion,
... Prior inaction on his part does not constitute laches. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1919)
"laches. The right to relief in equity may be barred by ^s.38 Mere lapse of time
is not sufficient to constitute laches, but thereto the situation of the ..."
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