limitation
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- noun
- /ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
- Formal
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prescripción
- There's no statute of limitations on unreported sexual offenses against minors.
- statute of limitations
- applicable statute of limitations
citizens to engaging in a grift, the statute of limitations is more than three years and nine months.
- citizens to engaging in a grift, the statute of limitations is more than three years and nine months.
- So many states had time limits, statutes of limitations.
- In my experience through Child USA and my work on statutes of limitations, when one victim comes forward frequently, typically many come after.
- We doing I feel like the statue of limitation is over.
- I've now decided to, like, open up the statute of limitations and say to her, yo, lady, what were you doing?
Examples
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How does that get us past the statute of limitations?
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The statute of limitations has run out.
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Statute of limitations is seven years.
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The statute of limitations on burglary is what?
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Then it strikes me that the statute of limitations is long past.
Fiction book (1992) -
The statute of limitations is only three years, and most of these victims don't come forward until long after that.
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As far as I know, there's no statute of limitations for murder.
Fiction book (1997) -
Three of those alleged crimes took place outside of the statute of limitations and for that reason, we have declined to file charges in those three cases.
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Computerized docketing provides several reminders that the statute of limitations is going to expire.
Academic text (1993) -
The limitation for filing a lawsuit is set at five years according to state law.
Synonyms
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3.5
The end of the time when something is valid, like a passport or food
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7.3
A law that stops people from starting a lawsuit after a set time
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2.7
A set time by which you must finish something
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3.0
The last date when a document or product is still valid
Compounds
A series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Limitation comes from limit, a word for a 'border' or 'end'. In law it came to mean a 'time limit' or 'deadline', so a legal limitation is the set time after which you cannot bring a case.