Disporre del tempo (giuridico). La rinunzia alla prescrizione e alla decadenza e l’estinguibilità temporale delle situazioni giuridiche soggettive come oggetto dell’atto negoziale

The paper examines the issue of waiver of prescription and forfeiture, investigating its legal nature, structure, function and disciplinary rules. From these, and in particular from the provisions of the Italian civil code, the general nature of the rules regarding forfeiture is evident and the opportunity to reconstruct the system of temporal limitations, however named, in a unitary way is confirmed.