Vigilantibus not dormientibus iura succurrunt is a latino literate literally means the right comes to the rescue of those who remain vigilant, not of those who sleep.
It means that to effectively and effectively protect your rights is not enough to have the law on its side: it is also necessary for the person concerned to act promptly to defend them.
The principle expressed by the brocard (the primacy of the party's initiative in the protection of its rights) forms the basis of democratic-liberal systems, and takes particular importance in the ordinances, such as the Italian one, which provide for specific decades in the course of the ' procedural process (especially with regard to civil proceedings).
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