CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 4120
Affirmative Defense—Statute of Limitations
[Name of defendant] contends that [name of plaintiff]’s lawsuit was not
filed within the time set by law. To succeed on this defense, [name of
defendant] must prove that [name of plaintiff]’s claimed harm occurred
before [insert date four years before complaint was filed] unless [name of
plaintiff] proves that before [insert date four years before complaint was
filed], [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun/it] did not discover, and did not know of
facts that would have caused a reasonable person to suspect, [name of
defendant]’s wrongful act or omission.
New April 2007; Renumbered from CACI No. 4106 December 2007; Revised
December 2012
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
227bc96f9e7b210ccf2ab31a89fccc609aa6d0a2c18749779af0bebca7ec1732
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