英文法律词典 L-56

126. - 2. As to personal actions. The following actions shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of action shall accrue and not afterwards, to wit:

127. - 1st. All actions of debt founded upon any contract or liability not under seal, except such as are brought upon the judgment or decree of some court of record, or of general equity jurisdiction of the United States, or of this or some other of the United States.

128. - 2d. All actions upon judgments rendered in any court other than those above excepted.

129. - 3rd. All actions for arrears of rent.

130. - 4th. All actions of assumpsit or upon the case founded on any contract or liability express or implied.

131. - 6th. All actions for waste.

132. - 6th. All actions of replevin and trover and all other actions for taking, detaining, or injuring goods and chattels.

133. - 7th. All other actions on the case, except actions for slanderous words or for libels.

134. - Sec. 2. All actions for trespass upon land or for assault and battery, and for false imprisonment, and all actions for slanderous words and for libels, shall be commenced within two years next after the cause of action shall, accrue and ]lot afterwards.

135. - Sec. 3. All actions against sheriffs for the misconduct or neglect of their deputies shall be commenced within four years next after the cause of action shall accrue and not afterwards.

136. - Sec. 4. None of the foregoing provisions shall apply to any action brought, upon any bills, notes or other evidence of debt issued by any bank.

137. - Sec. 5. ln all actions of debt or assumpsit brought to recover the balance due upon mutual and open account current the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of the last item proved in such account.

138 .- Sec. 6. If any person entitled to bring any of the actions before mentioned in this chapter shall, at the time when the cause of action accrues, be within the age of twenty-one years, or a married woman, insane, imprisoned in the state prison, or absent from the United States, such person may bring the said actions within the time in this chapter respectively limited after the disability shall be removed.