Laches (; f. French, lâchesse, lâches ) is an " unreasonable delay pursuing a right or claim ... in a way that prejudices the party " When asserted in litigation, it is an equitable defense, or doctrine.

When Edouard Ravel died in 1960, the Ravel estate fell subject to extensive litigation for ten years, reaching France's highest appellate court.

When asked how going up against Scientology compares to normal litigation, Lirot replied, " It's like comparing LSD to orange juice.

Huber's books Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences ( 1988 ) and Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom ( 1991 ) and Olson's book The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit ( 1991 ) are credited by many with framing the initial political debate over frivolous litigation, and raising the profile of this previously obscure political issue in the early 1990s.

When General Electric and Westinghouse Electric Company formed the " Board of Patent Control " in 1896, to coordinate patent licensing and litigation, Latimer was employed as chief draftsman.

When Republic Pictures planned to do a superhero serial using its renown " flying man " scenes as used in The Adventures of Captain Marvel, the character of Captain Marvel was tied up in litigation with the owners of the character of Superman.

When commencing litigation a court's jurisdiction may be challenged on the basis that it does not have jurisdiction.

When the meeting was finally held in March 1881, however, and the McCalmont-dominated voting resulted in election of a different president and board from Gowen and his associates, Gowen resorted to new litigation.

When this failed P & G filed suit against Berlin Mills, the litigation being known as " Procter and Gamble vs. the Brown Company " ( Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co., 254 U. S. 156 ( 1920 )), since in 1917 the Berlin Mills Co. became the Brown Company.

The argument that school vouchers increases quality and efficiencies in schools forced to compete is supported by studies such as " When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement " ( Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's, 2003 ), which concluded that public schools located near private schools that were eligible to accept voucher students made significantly more improvements than did similar schools not located near eligible private schools.

Using the principle of equivalence, Einstein concluded that the same thing holds in any gravitational field, that the rate of clocks R at different heights was altered according to the gravitational field g. When g is slowly varying, it gives the fractional rate of change of the ticking rate.

When the Thirty Years ' War concluded with the Treaty of Münster ( also called the Peace of Westphalia ) in 1648, a new electorate was created for the Count Palatine of the Rhine.

When the numbers are very large, no efficient, non-quantum integer factorization algorithm is known ; an effort concluded in 2009 by several researchers factored a 232-digit number ( RSA-768 ), utilizing hundreds of machines over a span of 2 years.

When king Kavadh I of Persia died ( September 531 ), Justinian concluded an " Eternal Peace " ( which cost him 11, 000 pounds of gold ) with his successor Khosrau I ( 532 ).

When viewed by zoologists and professors of natural history it was concluded that it showed a seal, possibly a grey seal.

When spring training concluded, Smith had amassed a. 288 batting average and zero errors in the field, and Clayton batted. 190 with eight errors.

When his stint on This Week in Baseball concluded, Smith then moved on to do work for CNN-SI beginning in 1999.

When anthropologists David J. Daegling and Daniel O. Schmitt examined the film, they concluded it was impossible to conclusively determine if the subject in the film is nonhuman, and additionally argued that flaws in the studies by Krantz and others invalidated their claims.

When the treaty was concluded, the younger sister of as-Salih came to Saladin and requested the return of the Fortress of A ' zaz ; he complied and escorted her back to the gates of Aleppo with numerous presents.

When police officials concluded the twin towers were in danger of collapsing and ordered police to leave the complex, fire officials were not notified.

" When it appeared as though a sale was being concluded, she switched tactics.

When the assembly was concluded, Otto III and his mother Theophanu travelled across the Alps in order for Otto III to receive his coronation at Aachen, the traditional site for the coronation of the German kings.

When peace was concluded, they received no war reparations.

When speaking of cardinal utility, it could be concluded that the cup of orange juice is better than the cup of tea by exactly the same amount by which the cup of tea is better than the cup of water.

When peace was concluded with Denmark, the anti-Swedish coalition had already fallen apart, and Denmark was not in a military position to negotiate a return of her former eastern provinces across the sound.

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

When a prosecutor has collected some evidence ( for instance a DNA match ) and has an expert testify that the probability of finding this evidence if the accused were innocent is tiny, the fallacy occurs if it is concluded that the probability of the accused being innocent must be comparably tiny.

When it became apparent that Western countries would not supply Egypt under financial and military terms acceptable to it, Nasser turned to the Soviet bloc and concluded a satisfactory armaments agreement with Czechoslovakia in September 1955.

When the talks concluded, Callaghan led the Cabinet in declaring the new terms acceptable and he supported a ' Yes ' vote in the 1975 referendum.

When Willian Jansen suggested that legends that disappear quickly were " short-term legends " and the persistent ones be termed " long-term legends ", the distinction between legend and rumour was effectively obliterated, Tangherlini concluded.

When the formation talks have been concluded the Queen appoints the cabinet.

When Krum died in spring 814, Leo V defeated the Bulgarians in the environs of Mesembria ( Nesebar ) and the two states concluded a 30-year peace in 815.

When these campaigns concluded in 298, he departed for Italy, where he lived in comfort until 305.

When Absalon retired from military service in 1184 at the age of fifty-seven, he resigned the command of fleets and armies to younger men, like Duke Valdemar, the later king Valdemar II.

When Anne and her brother returned home for the holidays in June 1846, she resigned her position.

When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.

When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

When Ray found himself unable to subscribe as required by the ‘ Bartholomew Act ’ of 1662 he, along with 13 other college fellows, resigned his fellowship on 24 August 1662

When the Congress party under Nehru chose to contest elections and accept power under the Federation scheme, Gandhi resigned from party membership.

When the Nazis came to power, there was only one resignation from the Foreign Office: German Ambassador to the United States Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron resigned because he could not in good conscience serve the Nazi regime.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

When she resigned, Short denounced " the centralisation of power into the hands of the Prime Minister and an increasingly small number of advisers " The Butler Review of 2004 condemned Blair's style of " sofa government ".

When the war was over, he quarreled with the Emperor, resigned and spent the rest of his life in Europe.

When Labor reinstated the more radical Ted Theodore as Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet.

When the university officials reneged on their promise, Appleton resigned and accepted a position at Harvard College.

When Hickey unexpectedly resigned in February 1999, Martin was in a position to succeed her, and was soon appointed as Opposition Leader.

When his older brother Ezekiel's studies required Webster's support, the young man resigned from the law office and worked as a schoolteacher — as young men often did then, when public education consisted largely of subsidies to local schoolmasters.

When Harold Wilson resigned in 1976, Callaghan was elected the new Labour leader.

When Fraser became Liberal leader in 1975, Gorton resigned from the party, sat as an independent, and openly campaigned against Fraser, whom he detested.

When Whitlam won the election, McMahon resigned the Liberal leadership and was replaced by Snedden, who became the new Opposition Leader.

When he resigned to run for the presidency in 1999, Rosario Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City.

When economic hardships were causing many architectural practices to close in 1913, he resigned from Honeyman and Keppie and attempted to open his own practice.

When Pierre Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader in 1979 following an election loss, Turner announced that he would not be a candidate for the Liberal leadership.

When Clark received an endorsement by only 66. 9 per cent of delegates at the party convention in January 1983 in Winnipeg, Clark resigned and ran to regain his post at the 1983 leadership convention.

When Cain resigned after a collapse in his political support in August 1990, Kirner was elected Labor leader and thus became Victoria's first female Premier.