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If one is aggrieved by the judicial outcome of an action and wishes to [[appeal]], he may be forever barred from doing so if he fails to meet the deadline by which his appeal may be filed.

By court order, or by local rule, there may be other time constraints. One may be required to answer [[interrogatories]] or a [[request to produce]] or other [[discovery (law)|discovery]] [[pleading]]s within a given time. He may be required to give a certain number of days' advance notice before he intends to [[deposition (law)|depose]] a [[party (disambiguationlaw)|party]] or [[witness]]. A court may order that there will be only a certain number of weeks or months allowed during which the parties to an action may conduct discovery. There may be a limitation placed upon a [[Deposition (law)|deposition]], requiring that the party taking it conclude his questioning within a certain number of hours or days.

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