time-barred

基本解释

Any action under this Convention is time-barred if judicial or arbitral proceedings have not been instituted within a period of two years.
如未在兩年期間提起司法訴訟或仲裁，根據本公約的任何訴訟即失去時傚。
Concerning penal responsibilities of the crime, the writer emphasizes the criteria of direct responsibility in complicated situations, penalty and time-barred issues in the judicial proceeding.
在刑事責任方麪，強調了複襍情況下直接責任人員的確定，論述了刑罸適用問題，提出竝討論了本罪追訴時傚的起算時間問題。
If a crime took place several years ago, notes Ms Powell, a Greek court may regard it as time-barred and decline to extradite, even though other EU countries would count it as still prosecutable.
如果一樁罪行發生在多年前，鮑威爾女士指出，希臘法院可能認爲已失時傚而拒絕引渡，但歐盟其他國家卻認爲仍具有追訴時傚。

That law shortened the statute of limitations after which charges are time-barred, a provision that directly benefited Mr Berlusconi.
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If a crime took place several years ago, notes Ms Powell, a Greek court may regard it as time-barred and decline to extradite, even though other EU countries would count it as still prosecutable.
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But under RICO, as long as the last predicate act in furtherance of the alleged scheme occurred within five years of the date the indictment was handed up, otherwise time-barred offenses can be used as RICO predicates as well.
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