Sample sentences for STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

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a legal time limit after which lawsuits cannot be filed for civil or criminal charges

The complaint was not filed before the expiration of the statute of limitations.

There is no statute of limitations on his kind of indecency.
Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
There's a statute of limitations.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
There's no statute of limitations on murder."
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
"No statute of limitations on espionage," Jacobs pointed out.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Even though by now the statute of limitations has run out on the specific instances of crime, there'll still be a scandal.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
They couldn't sue over the cells being taken in the first place for several reasons, including the fact that the statute of limitations passed decades ago.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I knew I would never really claim my head rights, and probably couldn't even if I wanted to — they surely had a statute of limitations or some such thing.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
Two years was the "statute of limitations," and after that the victim could not sue.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
To the detective superintendent's dismay, the statute of limitations eventually put an end to the matter.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
There's no statute of limitations on war crimes, and Medusa was officially determined to be a private organization, a collection of violent misfits who wanted the corrupt Southeast Asia back the way they knew it and used it.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
My crime falls outside the statute of limitations.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The statute of limitations has long since run out in the case of Rebecka, and the police investigation was closed.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Rebecka case was something that happened before Harriet Vanger was even born, and the statute of limitations has long since run out.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
She started organizing information into carefully labeled folders: one about cells, another about cancer, another full of definitions of legal terms like statute of limitations and patient confidentiality.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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