Legal Opinion
Candelario-Del-Moral v. UBS Financial Services Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 21, 2014No. 13-1765PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
For over four centuries, persons learned in the law have known that, when litigation is in prospect, vigilance is good and somnolence is bad. Commentators and courts have phrased this sentiment in different ways. See, e.g., In re Wood, [1883] 23 Ch.D. 644 at 653 (Eng.) (“It is a reasonable presumption that a man who sleeps upon his rights has not got much right.”); Edmund Wingate, Maxims of Reason (1658) (“Laws come to the assistance of the vigilant, not of the sleepy.”). The lesson to be derived is that “[t]he law ministers to the vigilant not to those who sleep upon…
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