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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LACHES (from Anglo-See also:French lachesse, See also:negligence, from lasche, See also:modern ldche, unloosed, slack) , a See also:term for slackness or negligence, used particularly in See also:law to signify negligence on the See also:part of a See also:person in doing that which he is by law See also:bound to do, or unreasonable See also:lapse of See also:time in asserting a right, seeking See also:relief, or claiming a See also:privilege. Laches is frequently a See also:bar to a remedy which might have been had. if prosecuted in proper time. Statutes of See also:limitation specify the time within which various classes of actions may be brought. Apart from statutes of limitation courts of See also:equity will often refuse relief to those 50 who have allowed unreasonable time to elapse in seeking it, on the principle vigilanlibus ac non dormientibus See also:jura subveniunt.

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