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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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