Cornejo v. Dakota Lines, Inc.

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How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that new statutes of limitation must allow “a reasonable time after' they take effect for the commencement of suits upon existing causes of action”
• noting that all persons are charged with knowledge of the provisions of duly enacted statutes/ordinances
• observing that a new statute of limitations must allow “a reasonable time after they take effect for the commencement of suits upon existing causes of action.”
• recognizing states long had “the power to permit unused or abandoned interests in property to revert to another after the passage of time” (emphasis added)
• finding that a two-year grace period provided sufficient time for citizens to familiarize themselves and comply with a statute
• observing that Lambert’s “application has been limited, lending some credence to Justice Frankfurter’s colorful prediction in dissent that the case would stand as ... ‘a derelict on the waters of the law’ ”

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