Law on the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State

The Ley de caducidad de la pretensión Punitiva del Estado ( German: Act on the statute of limitations of the state law claim ), in the vernacular often referred to simply as the Ley de caducidad, is an Act of the Uruguay.

When on 22 December 1986 in the reign Julio María Sanguinetti's standard adopted by Parliament with the number 15,848 is an amnesty law by law enforcement during the Uruguayan civil-military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985 crimes is difficult. In 1989, the law in a referendum first, the majority of the population who voted with 55.9 % for the law. The controversial law was first declared in February 2009 to a request of the Supreme Court back part of both the government and the two chambers of the Uruguayan Parliament and again in 2010 to be unconstitutional and in case Miguel Dalmaos by the Supreme Court to be inapplicable. It originally came about through the voices of almost all members of the Partido Colorado with the exception of one and part of those of the Partido Nacional. The dissenting votes came at the time of the members of the Frente Amplio and some other MPs.

On 27 October 2011 the law by the Ley N º 18,831 eventually de facto has been overridden.