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      Time Limits on a Claim — page 2

      A limitation period does not begin when somebody is harmed; it begins when the law says the claim accrued, and those two dates are frequently years apart. Discovery rules, continuing conduct, minority and incapacity, and contractual shortening all move the date, while a statute of repose ignores all of them and cuts the claim off regardless. This subject covers where a limitation period starts, what moves it and what does not.

      Time Limits on a Claim

      Notice Conditions Inside a Contract

      Contracts commonly require a party to give notice of a problem within a short period as a condition of any later claim. These provisions specify content, method and recipient as well as timing, and non-compliance frequently bars the claim entirely however strong it is. They are separate from, and very much shorter than, any limitation period running alongside them.

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