Ciardi v. F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• “[t]he law designs that the owner shall have ample knowledge on the subject, and a full opportunity to assert his claim, but if he sleeps upon his rights for a period of fifteen years he is presumed to have acquiesced in the claims of another”
• ‘‘[t]he construction of a written docu- ment is a matter of law, where the meaning is to be ascertained from the document itself; but where the meaning can be understood only from extrin- sic facts, the construction is generally a question of fact for the jury’’

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