0 a law that states a legal action must be brought before a particular period of time has passed:
1 a law that limits the amount of time allowed to bring a legal action against someone:
She was barred by statutes of limitations from filing civil or criminal actions.
A two-year statute of limitations blocked authorities from pursuing most of the violations.
Twice, in 1965 and in 1969, parliament opted to extend the statute of limitations.
And what is the "statute of limitations" on compensating for breaches of duties to compensate?
Instead, they permit legal doctrines like adverse possession to function as a kind of statute of limitations on the rectification of property claims.
I do suggest, that if a claim be sound and just, it should not be barred by any statute of limitations of that kind.
Clause 8 provides for a two-year rule—effectively a two-year statute of limitations.