New York adopted a special statute of limitations for victims of sexual crimes in 2006â N.Y. Civil Prac. Law Â§213-c. The statute provides that actions for civil damages for defined sexual crimes, including sexual abuse of a minor, may be brought within 5 years of the acts constituting the sexual offense.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia. Impanel. The act of the clerk of the court in making up a list of the jurors who have been selected for the trial of a particular cause. All the steps of ascertaining who shall be the proper jurors to sit in the trial of a particular case up to the final formation. impanel. v. to select and install a jury. impanel.
Full Definition of LITTER. 1. a: a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger b: a device (as a stretcher) for carrying a sick or injured person. 2.he â bedding for animals â sense was extended to the offspring of an animal such as a dog. In a different direction, litter became not just straw for animal bedding, but straw or similar material spread around for any purpose, and by the 1700s any odds and ends of rubbish lying scattered about.