Lacey Act

An act of congress. May 26, 1900, under which the states may enforce game laws against animals, birds, etc., imported from other states or countries. See Game Laws. LACHES (Fr. lacker). Unreasonable delay; neglect to do a thing or to seek to enforce a right at a proper time. The neglect to do that which by law a man is obliged or in duty bound to do. Anderson v. Northrop, 30 Fla. 612, 12 South. 318. The neglect to do what in law should have been d(me, for an unreasonable and unexplained length of time and under circumstances permitting diligence. Babb v. Sullivan, 43 S. O. 436, 21 S. E. 277. the Inequity of permitting the claim to be enforced; an Inequity founded upon some change in the condition or relation of the property of the parties; Lemolne v. Dunklin County, 51 Fed. 487, 2 C. C. A. 343, 10 U. S. App. 227; Qal Uher v. Cadwell, 145 U. S. 368, 12 Sup. Ct. 873, 36 L. Ed. 738. It has been said to involve the idea of negligence; the neglect or failure to do what ought to have been done under the circumstances to protect the rights of the parties to whom it is imputed, or Involving Injury to the opposite party through such neglect to assert rights within -a reasonable time; Ripley v. Sellgman, 88 Mich. 177, 60 N. W. 143. In general, laches is neglect to do what should have been done for an unreasonable or unexplained length of time under circumstances permitting diligence; mere lapse of time before bringing suit without change of circumstances will not constitute laches; Newberry v. Wilkinson, 199 Fed. 673, 118