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The Danger Of Retaining A Will: A Virginia View, J. Rodney Johnson
The Danger Of Retaining A Will: A Virginia View, J. Rodney Johnson
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The majority of American jurisdictions still continue the original common law concept of a statute of limitations that begins to run immediately upon the commission of a wrong, as contrasted with the more modern rule that a statute of limitations will not begin until such time as the injured party actually discovers the injury or, in the exercise of due diligence, should have discovered the injury. Those jurisdictions adopting the modern approach disregard what they refer to as the "technical" approach of the common law rule in order to focus on more fundamental concepts of justice instead. The issue, as …