Before the innovation in the practice made in 1937 by the enactment of article 78 of the Civil Practice Act (L. 1937, ch. 526), there was no Statute of Limitations on mandamus. The timeliness of the former writ and of the later (1920) order of mandamus was regulated judicially. There is today a nominal statutory limitation of time on the institution of the present successor to mandamus; but the control...
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