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LEVY v. STEWART

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78 U.S. 244 (1871)

11 Wall. 244

20 L.Ed. 86

LEVY, v. STEWART.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 20, 1871.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. P. Phillips, for the plaintiff in error:

Messrs. S.M. Johnson and C.F. Peck, contra.

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

Statutes of limitations exist in all the States, and with few exceptions they have been copied from the one brought here by our ancestors in colonial times.† They are regarded as statutes of repose arising from the lapse of time and the antiquity of transactions, and they also proceed upon the presumption that claims are extinguished whenever they are not litigated in the...

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