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On today’s episode, Mathew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney, answers the question, "What is a statute of limitations?"

There's only so much time the law allows for you to recover damages, and that time frame is something we call a statute of limitations.

Every jurisdiction has a different statute of limitations for different things.

A two-year statute of limitations means you have to file a lawsuit within two years to get damages.

Statute of limitations don't just apply in civil law.

There are criminal laws where charges have to be brought in a certain amount of time to face criminal penalties.

In the law, there's usually an exception to every rule. Sometimes there's a pause on that time frame, or what we call "tolling."

If somebody is keeping a secret, that might delay the statute of limitations until the secret is found out.

So always check your statute of limitations.

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