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Article 1 - Limitations of Actions
Section 37-1-1 - [Generally.] - The following suits or actions may be brought within the...
Section 37-1-2 - Judgments. - Actions founded upon a judgment of a court of the...
Section 37-1-3 - Notes; written instruments; period of limitation; computation of period. - A. Actions founded upon any bond, promissory note, bill of...
Section 37-1-4 - [Accounts and unwritten contracts; injuries to property; conversion; fraud; unspecified actions.] - Those founded upon accounts and unwritten contracts; those brought for...
Section 37-1-5 - Actions for wage and hour violations. - A civil action to enforce any provision of Chapter 50,...
Section 37-1-6 - [Accrual of cause of action on open accounts.] - Where there is an open current account the cause of...
Section 37-1-7 - [Accrual of cause of actions for fraud or mistake, injuries or conversion of property.] - In actions for relief, on the ground of fraud or...
Section 37-1-8 - Actions against sureties on fiduciary bonds; injuries to person or reputation. - Actions must be brought against sureties on official bonds and...
Section 37-1-9 - [Effect of absence from state or concealment of debtor.] - If, at any time after the incurring of an indebtedness...
Section 37-1-10 - Minors; incapacitated persons. - The times limited for the bringing of actions by the...
Section 37-1-11 - [Effect of death.] - If the person entitled to a cause of action die...
Section 37-1-12 - [When commencement of action stayed or prevented.] - When the commencement of any action shall be stayed or...
Section 37-1-13 - [When action deemed commenced.] - The filing in the proper clerk's office of the petition,...
Section 37-1-14 - [When second suit deemed continuation of first action.] - If, after the commencement of an action, the plaintiff fail...
Section 37-1-15 - [Setoffs or counterclaims not barred; defendant not to receive excess.] - A setoff or counterclaim may be pleaded as a defense...
Section 37-1-16 - Revival of causes of action. - Causes of action founded upon contract shall be revived by...
Section 37-1-17 - [Other statutes prescribing limitations unaffected.] - None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to...
Section 37-1-18 - [Limitations not to run against trust actions fraudulently concealed.] - None of the provisions of this chapter shall run against...
Section 37-1-19 - [Applicability of limitations.] - The above limitations and provisions shall not apply to evidences...
Section 37-1-20 - [No sale upon mortgages, etc., when action barred.] - No lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels shall be sold...
Section 37-1-21 - Repealed. - History: Laws 1857-1858, p. 64; C.L. 1865, ch. 73, ยง...
Section 37-1-22 - Title in fee simple by adverse possession; action after ten years barred; definition; payment of taxes. - In all cases where any person or persons, their children,...
Section 37-1-23 - Contractual liability; statute of limitations. - A. Governmental entities are granted immunity from actions based on...
Section 37-1-24 - Suits against municipalities or their officers. - No suit, action or proceeding at law or equity for...
Section 37-1-25 - [Suit, etc., on municipal and other local governmental bonds or coupons.] - No suit, action or proceeding at law or equity, for...
Section 37-1-26 - [Questioning of privilege or franchise granted by municipal corporation.] - No action or suit shall be brought to call in...
Section 37-1-27 - Construction projects; limitation on actions for defective or unsafe conditions. - No action to recover damages for any injury to property,...
Section 37-1-28 - Real estate; limitation on actions for defects of title. - A. After fifteen years from the date an instrument affecting...
Section 37-1-29 - Limitation [on parent-child relationship determination]. - An action to determine a parent and child relationship shall...
Section 37-1-30 - Action for damages due to childhood sexual abuse; limitation on actions. - A. An action for damages based on personal injury caused...
Article 2 - Abatement and Revivor
Section 37-2-1 - What causes of action survive. - In addition to the causes of action which survive at...
Section 37-2-2 - [Transfer pendente lite; no abatement.] - No action shall abate by the transfer of any interest...
Section 37-2-3 - [Marriage; conviction of crime; suit against prisoner.] - No action shall abate by the marriage or conviction of...
Section 37-2-4 - [Death of party to pending action; no abatement; exceptions.] - No action pending in any court shall abate by the...
Section 37-2-5 - [Death or cessation of power; procedure when right of action survives to or against coparty.] - Where there are several plaintiffs or defendants in an action,...
Section 37-2-6 - [Proceeding with remaining parties when no survival of action.] - Where one of several plaintiffs or defendants dies, or his...
Section 37-2-7 - [Revivor in name of representative or successor authorized.] - When one of the parties to an action dies, or...
Section 37-2-8 - [Order of revivor.] - The revivor shall be by a conditional order of the...
Section 37-2-9 - [Publication of notice where representatives of defendant nonresidents, etc.; when action revived.] - When the plaintiff shall make an affidavit that the representatives...
Section 37-2-10 - [Revivor on death of plaintiff.] - Upon the death of the plaintiff in an action, it...
Section 37-2-11 - [Revivor on death of defendant.] - Upon the death of a defendant in an action, wherein...
Section 37-2-12 - [Revivor of action concerning real estate on death of defendant.] - Upon the death of a defendant in an action for...
Section 37-2-13 - [Consent required for revivor against defendant's representative or successor; exception.] - An order to revive an action against the representatives or...
Section 37-2-14 - [Revivor in name of plaintiff's representative or successor; revivor on both sides.] - An order to revive an action in the names of...
Section 37-2-15 - [When action to be stricken from docket.] - When it appears to the court by affidavit that either...
Section 37-2-16 - [Death of plaintiff; procedure by defendant to obtain revivor or dismissal.] - At any term of the court succeeding the death of...
Section 37-2-17 - [No postponement of trial upon revivor.] - When, by the provisions of the preceding sections of this...