Until a few years ago, few Connecticut attorneys knew much about nullum tempus. But then the legal doctrine played a major role in a high-profile, high-stakes litigation involving the University of Connecticut School of Law library and contractors who designed and built the edifice that began leaking shortly after it opened.
The entire Latin phrase is nullum tempus occurrit regi, or “no time runs against the king,” meaning that a statute of limitations does not apply to a state unless a law specifically provides that it does. Now, nearly four years after the state Supreme Court invoked nullum tempus to Connecticut’s benefit in the law library case, a tribal court is ruling that the same doctrine applies to the much smaller Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.
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