Levy v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

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12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““Recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the state are referred to by the defendant, in which it is denied that any exception whatever is allowed in any case, in the law of prescription, as to bills and notes. None of those decisions are foundM upon any express enactment, and the reasons assigned for the conclusion are not satisfactory. They admit that the maxim ‘contra non valentem agere non currit prescriptio’ is a maxim ofpmiversal justice, but deny that it applies to causes of action founded upoii bills and notes, chiefly because ‘they are prescriptible against minors and interdicted persons as well as others,’ which the Chief .Tustice of the court, in the case first cited, held to be an unsatisfactory reason for the conclusion, and in that view the court here entirely concurs.””

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