Limitation of actions

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• Limitation of actions -- Dominican Republic
• Limitation of actions -- Germany
• Limitation of actions -- Great Britain
• Limitation of actions -- India
• Limitation of actions -- New York (State)
• Limitation of actions -- Soviet Union
• Limitation of actions -- Turkey
• Limitation of actions -- United States
• Adverse possession
• Natural obligations

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• Statute of limitations

• A treatise on the limitation of actions at law and in equity : with an appendix, containing the American and English statutes of limitations / by H.G. Wood. (Boston : The Boston book company, 1893), by H. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Verjährung der Entschädigungsklagen nach [Par.] 1489 ABGB / von Dr. Josef freiherrn von Schey (Wien : Manz, 1905), by Josef Schey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The statute of limitations and adverse possession, with an appendix containing the English acts of limitation, by Henry F. Buswell (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1889), by Henry F. Buswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Limitations of actions against trustees and relief from liability for technical breaches of trust. Being a concise treatise upon the position of trustees as affected by The imperial statute, 51 and 52 Victoriae, cap. 59, section 8. The revised statute of Ontario (1897), cap. 129, section 32. The Nova Scotia statute, 52 Victoriae, cap. 18, section 17. And by The imperial statute, 59 and 60 Victoriae, cap. 35, section 3. The Ontario statute, 62 Victoriae, cap. 15, section 1. The New Brunswick statute, 61 Victoriae, cap. 26. With an appendix of statutes. Copious references and a very full index. By Francis A. Anglin (Toronto, Canada law book company, 1900), by Francis Alexander Anglin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discussion of certain points in the statute of limitations. By J.A. Campbell (Mobile, Evening news job office print, 1853), by John Archibald Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gründe der Strafaufhebung / von F. Mattli. (Chur : Buchdruckerei M. Ebner, 1918), by Florian Mattli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the limitation of actions at law and in equity. With an appendix, containing the American and English statutes of limitations. By H.G. Wood ... (Boston : The Boston Book Company, 1901), by H. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)

• La prescripción y el articulo 2257 del Código civil (Santo Domingo : Imp. "Flor del Ozama" de Lepervanche & cia., 1911), by Juan R Bazil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Wirkung klagloser Forderungen im Kontokorrentverkehr / Paul Goldschmidt. (Nürnberg : F. Willmy, 1914), by Paul Goldschmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and Ireland. By J. George N. Darby ... and Frederick Albert Bosanquet ... (London, W. Maxwell & son; [etc., etc.], 1867), by J. George N. Darby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the limitation of actions at law and in equity. With an appendix, containing the American and English statutes of limitations. By H.G. Wood ... (Boston : The Boston Book Company, 1901), by H. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the limitation of actions at law and in equity / by H.G. Wood. (Albany, N.Y. : M. Bender, 1916), by H. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The time limit on actions : being a treatise on the statute of limitations and the equitable doctrine of laches / by John M. Lightwood. (London : Butterworth, 1909), by John Mason Lightwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the limitation of actions as affecting mercantile and other contracts : with the important changes therein occasioned by several late decisions ... / by James John Wilkinson. (London : S. Sweet, 1829), by James John Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Act XIV of 1859 regulating the limitation of civil suits in British India, with a commentary by Ninian Hill Thomson. (Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, 1870), by India (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calman's code time-table : containing an alphabetical arrangement of the various periods of time required by the laws of practice in all actions and proceedings in the courts of the State of New York, as regulated by the Code of Civil Procedure, the rules of courts and the general laws of the state. / by David Calman. (New York : L. K. Strouse, 1883), by David Calman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Verjährung nach russischem Privatrecht. (Dorpat, 1867), by I. E. Ėngelʹman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mebahis-i hukukiyeden mürur-i zaman / muharriri İbrahim Edhem. (İzmir : Mizan ül-Hukuk Matbaası, 1326 [1908]), by İbrahim Ethem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Securities investors legal rights : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on H.R. 3185, a bill to establish a statute of limitations for private rights of action arising from a violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, November 21, 1991. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statute of limitations for Indian claims oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session on statute of limitations for Indian claims, February 17, 1982. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amending Public Law 107-153 to modify a certain date : report (to accompany S. 1892). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2005]), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workplace Goods Job Growth and Competitiveness Act of 2005 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3509, March 14, 2006. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abandonment of the private right of action for aiding and abetting securities fraud/staff report on private securities litigation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on recent securities law decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, Central Bank of Denver vs. First Interstate Bank of Denver ... May 12, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994), by Housing United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Securities Investor Protection Act of 1991 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on S. 1533 ... October 2, 1991. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1992), by Housing United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workplace Goods Job Growth and Competitiveness Act of 1999 : report together with dissenting views (to accompany H.R. 2005) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1999-), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providing for the consideration of H.R. 2005, the Workplace Goods Job Growth and Competitiveness Act of 1999 : report (to accompany H. Res. 412). ([Washington D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2000]), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oversight of Indian claims affected by federal statute of limitations : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on oversight of Indian claims affected by the federal statute of limitations, April 1, 1982, Washington, D.C (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1982-), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government Recordkeeping Requirements and Actions Act of 1981 : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 316 ... December 8 and 9, 1981. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1982), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statute of limitations extension hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session ... December 17, 1979, Washington, D.C.. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the limitation of actions at law and in equity / by H.G. Wood. (Albany, N.Y. : M. Bender, 1916), by H. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Postal Savings System Statute of Limitations Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3922 ... October 5, 1983. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quiet Title actions against the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H.R. 2484 ... March 5, 1986. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statute of limitations for Indian claims : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session on statute of limitations for Indian claims, February 17, 1982. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1982), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interstate Class Action Jurisdiction Act of 1999 and Workplace Goods Job Growth and Competitiveness Act of 1999 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1875 and H.R. 2005, July 21, 1999. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 2000), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the limitation of actions at law, and suits in equity: to which is added, an appendix containing an abstract of the statutes of limitation of the several states, Brook's Reading upon the statute of Henry VIII, etc. By Joseph K. Angell (Boston, Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829), by Joseph K. Angell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the limitations of actions at law and suits in equity and admiralty : with an appendix containing the American and English statutes of limitations, and embracing the latest acts on the subject / by J.K. Angell (Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1846), by Joseph K. Angell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of S. 1262 (Church Audit Procedures Act of 1983) : scheduled for a hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service of the Committee on Finance, on September 30, 1983 / prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1983) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workplace Goods Job Growth and Competitiveness Act of 2006 : report together with dissenting views (to accompany H.R. 3509) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2006-), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minimum wages & overtime pay : change in statute of limitations would better protect employees : report to the Chairman, Employment and Housing Subcommittee, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives / United States General Accounting Office. (Washington, D.C. : The Office ; Gaithersburg, MD (P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg 20877) : The Office [distributor, 1992]), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quiet Title Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3917 ... June 13, 1984. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adverse possession/ by Charles C. Callahan (Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1961), by Charles C. Callahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statute of limitations and adverse possession, with an appendix containing the English acts of limitation, by Henry F. Buswell (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1889), by Henry F. Buswell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Il reato di usurpazione nel Codice penale italiano (Campobello di Mazara, P. Vinci & G. Glorioso, 1900), by Paolo Cosentino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les tablettes magiques et le droit romain : mémoire présenté au Congrés international d'histoire comparée, Paris, 1900 / par P. Huvelin. (Macon : protat Frères, 1901), by P. Huvelin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Coutume de Bretagne, et usances particulieres de quelques villes et territoires de la mesme province. Avec des observations très-sçavantes, quantité de décisions & d'arrêts, par lesquels on voit tous les changemens qui se sont faits au Palais depuis la réformation de ladite coûtume. Augmentée de deux tables, l'une des préferences & l'autre des prescriptions. Par Monsieur* * * (A. Nantes, Chez N. Verger, MDCCXXV), by Brittany (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Unvordenklichkeit : ihr Ursprung und ihre Beziehungen zu Verschweigung und Rechtsbesitz ... / von Wilhelm Schmidt .. (Bochum : [A.E. Fischer], 1913), by Wilhelm Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tratados de la posesion y prescripcion de Pothier traducidos por d. Manuel Deó ... anotados y concordados con la legislacion romana y la vigente en España, Francia, República Argentina, Guatemala, México y Uruguay, por d. Antonio Elías de Molins ... (Barcelona, J. Llordachs, 1880), by Robert Joseph Pothier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Droit romain, De l'injure: Droit français, De la prescription de l'action publique ... (Paris, Chevalier-Marescq, 1893), by Jean Totti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Privatrechtliche beziehungen zwischen früheren Feinden nach dem Friedensvertrag (Verträge, Verjährung, Urteile, Art. 299-303 FV) / von Ernst Wolff. (Berlin :, F. Vahlen, 1921), by Ernst Wolff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voet's Commentaries : Book XLI, Modes of acquiring property, possession, and acquisitive prescription / translated, annotated and brought up to date, by L.E. Krause (Capetown : Juta & Co., ltd., 1922), by Johannes Voet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Voet, Commentary on the Pandects : in which, besides the principles of the Roman law and the more remarkable controversies, the modern law and more particularly questions of practice, are examined-Books 44 & 45 : exceptions, prescriptions, obligations, actions / tr. by L.E. Krause (Cape Town : Juta & Co., ltd., 1920), by Johannes Voet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Droit romain. De la nature du juste titre en matière d'usucapion. Droit francais. De l'effet des jugements étrangers rendus en matière pénale (Lyon, A. Waltener et cie, 1885), by A. Peiron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comment doit être déterminé le délai de la prescription extinctive des obligations en droit international privé / par A. Mérignhac (Paris : F. Pichon, 1884), by A. Mérignhac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Petri Barbosae ... Commentarii ad Rvbricam : et leges Cod. de praescript. 30. vel 40. annor. vniuersam praescriptionum materiam complectentes. (Papiae : Sumptibus Caroli Francisci Magrij impressoris ciuitatis ..., 1687), by Pedro Barbosa (page images at HathiTrust)

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