 | United States. Supreme Court - 1874 - 726 pàgines
...as observed in a recent case in this court,* " are founded upon the general experience of mankind, that claims which are valid are not usually allowed...original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is made by these statutes a positive bar; and they thus become statutes of repose,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1930 - 854 pàgines
...right, otherwise unlimited, might be asserted. They are founded upon the general experience of mankind that claims, which are valid, are not usually allowed...original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is made by these statutes a positive bar; and they thus become statutes of repose,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 pàgines
...right, otherwise unlimited, might be asserted. They are founded upon the general experience of mankind that claims, which are valid, are not usually allowed...original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is made by these statutes a positive bar; and they thus become statutes of repose,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 pàgines
...right, otherwise unlimited, might be asserted. They are founded upon the general experience of mankind that claims, which are valid, are not usually allowed...original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is made by these statutes a positive bar; and they thus become statutes of repose,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 866 pàgines
...right, otherwise unlimited, might be asserted. They are founded upon the general experience of mankind, that claims which are valid are not usually allowed...original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is made by these •tatutcs a positive bar ; and they thus become statutes of repose.... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - 1892 - 832 pàgines
...allowed to bring actions for injuries committed at any distance of time. 3 Bl. Com. 307. The statutes confer no right of action. They restrict the period...become statutes of repose, protecting parties from the prosecution of stale claims, when by loss of the evidence by the death of some witnesses, and the... | |
 | Iowa Engineering Society - 1897 - 664 pàgines
...otherwise unlimited, might be assorted. They are founded on the general experience that claims which arc valid are not usually allowed to remain neglected;...years without any attempt to enforce a demand creates, there fore, a presumption against the original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. The presumption... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1903 - 636 pàgines
...unlimited, may be asserted. They are founded upon the general experience of mankind, that valid claims are not usually allowed to remain neglected. The lapse...years without any attempt to enforce a demand creates a presumption against its original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is... | |
 | 1904 - 980 pàgines
...right, otherwise unlimited, may be asserted. They are founded upon the general experiences of mankind that claims which are valid are not usually allowed to remain neglected. Tbe lapse of years without any attempt to enforce a demand creates a presumption against its original... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1912 - 1054 pàgines
...right, otherwise unlimited, might be asserted. They are founded upon the general experience of mankind, that claims which are valid are not usually allowed...original validity, or that it has ceased to subsist. This presumption is made by these statutes a positive bar; and they thus become statutes of repose,... | |
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They are founded upon the general experience of mankind that claims which are valid are not usually allowed to remain neglected. The lapse of years without any attempt to enforce a demand creates, therefore, a presumption against its original validity,... 
