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Webster 1913 Edition
Lache
{
Lach′es
(lăsh′ĕz)
, Lache
(lăsh)
, } Noun.
(Law)
Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; especially, a delay in asserting a claim, sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court.
It ill became him to take advantage of such a
laches
with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. Macaulay.