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n. Negligence or undue delay in asserting a legal right or privilege.

n. Legal doctrine that a person who waits too long to bring a claim alleging a wrong shall not be permitted to seek an equitable remedy because the delay prejudiced the moving party. Sleeping on one's rights.

n. Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; especially, a delay in asserting a claim, sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court.

Negligence; remissness; inexcusable delay; neglect to do a thing at the proper time.

In law, remissness in asserting or enforcing a right, or neglect prejudicing some right of the person chargeable with it.

n. A genus of spiders: same as Lachesis, a name preoccupied in herpetology.

"And finally, the en banc Sixth Circuit rejected Secretary Brunner's arguments that the GOP had been guilty of "laches" - an equitable doctrine which basically says that if you've been tardy in asserting your rights, you may have forfeited them."

lache   

laches of entry   

neglect    negligence    remissness   

luflych    cercle    fot    inadvertency    travestie    represser    swyn    wyf    self-reference    fole