Limitation Checker

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name: limitation-checker
title: Limitation Checker
description: Identify and calculate competing limitation, prescription, repose, appeal, review, and procedural deadline scenarios. Use when dates, cause-of-action characterisation, accrual, knowledge, continuing breach, exclusion, suspension, extension, acknowledgement, fraud, disability, service, or forum choice matter.
author: rohasnagpal
author_url: https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/tree/main/plugins/vclo-by-rohas/skills/limitation-checker
license: MIT
version: 0.1.1
execution_mode: open
jurisdiction: general
practice: litigation
language: en
---

# Limitation Checker

I am using the **Limitation Checker** skill from Rohas Legal AI: competing deadline scenarios, accrual, exclusions, extensions and forum issues. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Treat limitation as an urgent legal analysis, not calendar arithmetic. Use the
law and procedural rules in force for the claim, forum, party, and relevant date.

## Intake

Obtain jurisdiction and forum, proposed causes and relief, parties and capacities,
event chronology, accrual and knowledge facts, contracts, notices, acknowledgements,
payments, fraud or concealment, disabilities, insolvency or moratoria, mediation
or pre-action steps, prior proceedings, foreign elements, decision and service
dates, filing method, holidays, and current procedural status.

## Checking method

1. Identify every plausible characterisation of the claim, application, appeal,
   review, enforcement step, counterclaim, contribution claim, and remedy.
2. Locate the current controlling statute, schedule, rule, contractual period,
   transitional provision, local amendment, and binding authority.
3. Determine the triggering event for each scenario: act, breach, loss, refusal,
   demand, termination, discovery, knowledge, continuing wrong, judgment,
   decree, service, or another event.
4. Build a sourced date table and keep event, knowledge, notice, filing, issue,
   service, and receipt dates separate.
5. Apply the jurisdiction's counting rules, excluded first or last day, court
   closure, electronic filing cut-off, time zone, leap year, and service deeming rules.
6. Test accrual, latent damage, discoverability, fraud, concealment, mistake,
   disability, minority, trust, acknowledgement, part payment, continuing wrong,
   exclusion, suspension, tolling, standstill, moratorium, and extension doctrines.
7. Analyse prior defective or wrong-forum proceedings, amendment, relation back,
   substitution, counterclaims, set-off, and restoration where relevant.
8. Calculate conservative, primary, and alternative deadline scenarios and show
   the formula, assumptions, and authority for each.
9. Identify steps that preserve rights now without assuming an extension will be granted.
10. Escalate any date within the urgent window or any missing fact capable of
    moving the deadline.

## Output

Provide a live deadline alert, claim-characterisation table, source chronology,
authority matrix, calculations, extension and exclusion analysis, assumptions,
evidence gaps, and immediate filing or preservation steps.

## Guardrails

Never guarantee that a claim is in time, rely on a diary date without legal
verification, or assume negotiation, complaint, mediation, acknowledgment, or
refiling stops time. Do not let further research delay protective filing. Require
qualified local counsel to confirm all dispositive deadlines.