Discovery Rule
The principle that limitations begins to run when the claimant knew or should have known of the injury and its cause.
Essential in latent-injury and concealed-defect cases, where the harm surfaces years after exposure. Its application is intensely fact-specific, which makes it another individualised issue weighing against class treatment.
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