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Nullum Tempus Act

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

St. 3 Geo. III. c. 16. See 32 Geo. III. c. 58, and 7 Wm. III. c. 3.

It was so called because the right of the crown to sue, etc., was limited by it to sixty years, in contradiction to the Maxim, NULLUM TEMPUS AUT LOCUS OCcurrit regi. No time or place affects the king.

2 Inst. 273; Jenk. Cent. Cas. 83; Broom, Leg. Max. 65.