Lache, Laches n. (Law) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; especially, a delay in asserting a claim, sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court. "It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney."
... man e hwile he mai wi os helle pine. [&] warnie his frend ar wi swo ich habbe ido mine. o e silde hem ne cunnen ich hem wille tache 305 [I]ch can ben aier [gh]ief isal lichame [&] sowle lache. | Late we at god forbet alle mankenne [f. 7r [&] do we at he us hat [&] silde we us wid senne. Luue we god mid ure herte [&] mid al ure mihte [&] ure emcristen alse us self swo us tached drihte. 310 Al at me rade [&] singed bifore godes borde Al hit hange [&] halt bi ese twam worde ... — Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 - Part I: Texts • Various
... carefully, there was a German behind the next tree. Henri Dumain, our little old French David who fought the tragic duel of tooth and claw with his German Jonathan in Thornsen's Elite Restaurant, stung him with that most insulting word in any known tongue—"Lache!"—and threatened him with uplifted cane; and poor Plooie slunk away. But I think it was the fact that he who stayed at home when others went forward had set a picture of Albert of Belgium in the window of his cubbyhole that most exasperated us against him. Tactless, to say the least! ... — From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
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