RCW 4.16.270
Effect of partial payment.
When any payment has been or shall be made upon any existing contract prior to its applicable limitation period having expired, whether the contract is a bill of exchange, promissory note, bond, or other evidence of indebtedness, if the payment is made after it is due, the limitation period shall restart from the time the most recent payment was made. Any payment on the contract made after the limitation period has expired shall not restart, revive, or extend the limitation period.
[ 2019 c 377 § 1; Code 1881 § 45; 1877 p 10 § 46; 1854 p 365 § 19; RRS § 177.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
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.
4.16.325 - 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.