Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time

Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 55 was added July 9, 1976, P.L.586, No.142,...

Section 5501 - Scope of chapter - (a) General rule.--An action, proceeding or appeal must be commenced...

Section 5502 - Method of computing periods of limitation generally - (a) General rule.--The time within which a matter must be...

Section 5503 - Commencement of matters - (a) General rule.--A matter is commenced for the purposes of...

Section 5504 - Judicial extension of time - (a) General rule.--Except as provided in section 1722 (c) (relating...

Section 5505 - Modification of orders - Except as otherwise provided or prescribed by law, a court...

Section 5521 - Limitations on foreign claims - (a) Short title of section.--This section shall be known and...

Section 5522 - Six months limitation - (a) Notice prerequisite to action against government unit.-- (1) Within...

Section 5523 - One year limitation - The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within one...

Section 5524 - Two year limitation - The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within two...

Section 5524.1 - Limitation and application for asbestos claims (Unconstitutional) - 2013 Unconstitutionality. Act 152 of 2004 was declared unconstitutional. Commonwealth...

Section 5525 - Four year limitation - (a) General rule.--Except as provided for in subsection (b), the...

Section 5526 - Five year limitation - The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within five...

Section 5527 - Six year limitation - (a) Eminent domain.-- (1) (i) If a condemnor has filed...

Section 5527.1 - Ten year limitation - (a) Adverse possession.--Title to real property may be acquired after...

Section 5527.2 - Mesne profits - (a) General rule.--Record owners, their heirs, successors and assigns shall...

Section 5527.3 - Reimbursement - The defendant in the ejectment action under section 5527.1 (relating...

Section 5528 - Fifteen year limitation - Except as otherwise provided by section 17 (relating to periods...

Section 5529 - Twenty year limitation - (a) Execution against personal property.--An execution against personal property must...

Section 5530 - Twenty-one year limitation - (a) General rule.--The following actions and proceedings must be commenced...

Section 5531 - No limitation - The following actions and proceedings may be commenced at any...

Section 5532 - Absence or concealment - (a) General rule.--If, when a cause of action accrues against...

Section 5533 - Infancy, insanity or imprisonment - (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by statute, insanity or...

Section 5534 - War - (a) Cause of action accruing in foreign country.--Where a cause...

Section 5535 - Effect of other actions and proceedings - (a) Termination of prior matter.-- (1) If a civil action...

Section 5536 - Construction projects - (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a civil...

Section 5537 - Land surveying - All actions to recover any or all damages against any...

Section 5538 - Landscape architecture - (a) General rule.--All actions to recover any or all damages...

Section 5539 - Real estate appraisals - (a) General rule.--Except as provided under subsection (b), an action...

Section 5551 - No limitation applicable - A prosecution for the following offenses may be commenced at...

Section 5552 - Other offenses - (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a...

Section 5553 - Summary offenses involving vehicles - (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c),...

Section 5554 - Tolling of statute - Except as provided by section 5553(e) (relating to disposition of...

Section 5571 - Appeals generally - (a) General rule.--The time for filing an appeal, a petition...

Section 5571.1 - Appeals from ordinances, resolutions, maps, etc - (a) Applicability; court of common pleas.-- (1) This section shall...

Section 5572 - Time of entry of order - The date of service of an order of a government...

Section 5573 - Effect of application for rehearing - If an application for rehearing or reconsideration of an order...

Section 5574 - Effect of application for amendment to qualify for interlocutory appeal - If an application is made to a tribunal within 30...