Does ignorance of the law or the legal consequences of the inappropriate transfer and mortgage of land delay the running of the limitation period?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Charan Sian, Pira Sian v. Avtar Kooner, Arthur Weingarden, 2012 ONSC 692 (CanLII):
Ignorance of the law or of the legal consequences surrounding the inappropriate transfer and mortgage of the land do not postpone the running of the limitation period when the plaintiffs ought to have known of the constituent elements of the causes of action pleaded in this claim (Peixeiro v. Haberman, 1997 CanLII 325 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 549, at para. 18).
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