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An end, or limit; a limitation, or period of limitation. ' FIN DE NON RECEVOIR. In French daw. An exception or plea founded on law, shich, withont entering into the merits of he action, shows that the plaintiff has no ht to bring it, either because the time durwhich it ought to have been brought has sed, which is called “prescription,” or { there has been a compromise, accord and staction, or any other cause which has destroyed the right of action which once subfisted. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt.

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