(from the French lascher, i.e. laxare, or lasche, ignarus), in the English law signifies slackness or negligence, as it appears in Littleton, where laches of entry is a neglect of the heir to enter. And probably it may be an old English word: for where we say there is laches of entry, it is all one as if it were said there is a lack of entry; and in this signification it is used. No laches shall be adjudged in the heir within age; and regularly, laches shall not bar infants or femme coverts for not entry or claim, to avoid defcets; but laches shall be accounted in them for non-performance of a condition annexed to the state of the land.