Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: 41 affords protection against atale claims- through statuto of limitations. See United States Lorasco, 431 U.S 783, 788 789 1977) Thus 61 I. 1621 provides that "[n]o suit action recover any pecun iary penalty or forfeiturc of property accruing under the customs laws shall be instituted unless such suit () action 18 commenced within five years after the time when the alleged off ense was discovered. That statute at limitations unques tionably con fers enforceable right on person an ownership interest property ara inst which the United Stal tes has brought forfeiture action, and if may be pleaded by the claimant as an affirmative defenze in answer ing the government's forfeiture complaint. Sce Fed. R. Civ. P 8{c} see also 28 U.S.C. 2462 There reason to believe that Congress in- tended U.S 16 ...
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