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... pleasure of the holder; and that we could not take away that right. This difficulty was met by the ingenuity of the then Senator from Vermont (Mr. Collamer). He said that no man ever exercised a right which could not properly be barred by a statute of limitations; and if this right was injurious to the people of the United States, and prevented the conversion of these notes into bonds, we might require the holder of these notes to convert them within a given time; that we could give them a reasonable time within which they could ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... entitled to any land or real estate, must bring an action to recover it within twelve years from the time when his right accrued, otherwise his claim will be barred by the "Statute of Limitations." ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... cases of prescription, the universal practice of judges is to direct juries by analogy to the Statute of Limitations, to decide against incorporeal rights which have for many years been relinquished': say instead, 'incorporeal rights that have for many years,' ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... "There is a statute of limitations to these things as well as for debt," he said to himself. "A man can live down anything, if he ...

— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon

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