Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 4.16 - Limitation of Actions.
4.16.070 - Actions limited to five years.

RCW 4.16.070
Actions limited to five years.

No action for the recovery of any real estate sold by an executor or administrator under the laws of this state shall be maintained by any heir or other person claiming under the deceased, unless it is commenced within five years next after the sale, and no action for any estate sold by a guardian shall be maintained by the ward, or by any person claiming under him or her, unless commenced within five years next after the termination of the guardianship, except that minors, and other persons under legal disability to sue at the time when the right of action first accrued, may commence such action at any time within three years after the removal of the disability.

[ 2011 c 336 § 82; 1890 p 81 § 1; RRS § 158. Prior: 1863 p 245 §§ 251, 252; 1860 p 205 §§ 217, 218; 1854 p 290 §§ 137, 138.]
NOTES:

Age of majority: Chapter 26.28 RCW.


Probate
actions by and against executors, etc.: Chapter 11.48 RCW.
sales and mortgages of real estate: Chapter 11.56 RCW; RCW 11.60.010.


Sales not voided by irregularities: RCW 11.56.115.

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Revised Code of Washington

Title 4 - Civil Procedure

Chapter 4.16 - Limitation of Actions.

4.16.005 - Commencement of actions.

4.16.020 - Actions to be commenced within ten years—Exception.

4.16.030 - Actions to foreclose special assessments.

4.16.040 - Actions limited to six years.

4.16.050 - Action on irrigation or drainage district warrant.

4.16.060 - Action on irrigation district bonds.

4.16.070 - Actions limited to five years.

4.16.080 - Actions limited to three years.

4.16.090 - Action to cancel tax deed.

4.16.100 - Actions limited to two years.

4.16.110 - Actions limited to one year.

4.16.115 - Special provisions for action on penalty.

4.16.130 - Action for relief not otherwise provided for.

4.16.150 - Action on mutual open accounts.

4.16.160 - Application of limitations to actions by state, counties, municipalities.

4.16.170 - Tolling of statute—Actions, when deemed commenced or not commenced.

4.16.180 - Statute tolled by absence from state, concealment, etc.

4.16.190 - Statute tolled by personal disability.

4.16.200 - Statute tolled by death.

4.16.210 - Statute tolled—By war as to enemy alien.

4.16.220 - Statute tolled—As to person in military service of United States.

4.16.230 - Statute tolled by judicial proceedings.

4.16.240 - Effect of reversal of judgment on appeal.

4.16.250 - Disability must exist when right of action accrued.

4.16.260 - Coexisting disabilities.

4.16.270 - Effect of partial payment.

4.16.280 - New promise must be in writing.

4.16.290 - Foreign statutes of limitation, how applied.

4.16.300 - Actions or claims arising from construction, alteration, repair, design, planning, survey, engineering, etc., of improvements upon real property.

4.16.310 - Actions or claims arising from construction, alteration, repair, design, planning, survey, engineering, etc., of improvements upon real property—Accrual and limitations of actions or claims.

4.16.320 - Actions or claims arising from construction, alteration, repair, design, planning, survey, engineering, etc., of improvements upon real property—Construction.

4.16.325 - Actions or claims arising from construction defect claims—Statute tolled.

4.16.326 - Actions or claims for construction defect claims—Comparative fault.

4.16.327 - Actions or claims for construction defects—Emergency repairs.

4.16.340 - Actions based on childhood sexual abuse.

4.16.350 - Action for injuries resulting from health care or related services—Physicians, dentists, nurses, etc.—Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, etc.

4.16.360 - Application of chapter to parentage action.

4.16.370 - Actions against personal representative or trustee for breach of fiduciary duties—Statute of limitations.