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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
End; limit; period of limitation. without entering into the merits of the action shows that the plaintiff has no right to bring it, either because the time during which it ought to have been brought has elapsed, which is called prescription, or that there has been a compromise, accord, and satisfaction, or any other cause which has destroyed the right of action which once subsisted.
Pothier, Proo. Civ. pt 1, c. 2, s. 2, art 2; Story, Confl. Laws § 680.