Imprescriptibility

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IMPRESCRIPTIBILITY. The state of being incapable of prescription.
2. A property which is held in trust is imprescriptible; that is the trustee cannot acquire a title to it by prescription; nor can the borrower of a thing get a right to it by any lapse of time, unless he claims an adverse right to it during the time required by law.

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On presentism and its relation to imprescriptibility see Francois Hartog, Regimes d'historicite.

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Even if the states' motivations for not ratifying these instruments does not affect the principle of the imprescriptibility of war crimes, the nonapplicability of statutory limitations does not emerge as a generally accepted principle of international criminal law.

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Some jurists believe that since Guatemala has not ratified the convention on imprescriptibility of crimes, no crime is imprescriptible.

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Nevertheless, if Paul Thibault is to be believed, this is the price that must be paid for the introduction of the notion of imprescriptibility into French law.

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Under the measure, judges and prosecutors would not be able to argue imprescriptibility (that is, the inapplicability of the statute of limitations) regarding acts that occurred before Nov.