Humphreys v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. ““In legal significance, ‘laches’ is not mere lapse of time, whether greater or less than the precise time of a statute of limitations; it is delay for such time as makes the doing of equity either impossible or doubtful, as involves the inequity of permitting a claim to be asserted after the death of parties, change of title, or Intervention of the rights of others, where, in consequence, evidence has been lost or become obscured, the discovery of the truth is made diiiieult, and the party attacked is placed in a position of evident disadvantage.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tilden v. Barber