Every personal action for which no limitation is otherwise prescribed shall be brought: (a) Within two years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued, if it be for damage to property; (b) within two years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued if it be for damages for personal injuries; and (c) within one year next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued if it be for any other matter of such nature that, in case a party die, it could not have been brought at common law by or against his personal representative.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale
Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits
§55-2-1. Entry Upon or Recovery of Lands
§55-2-2. Claim Not to Preserve Right as to Lands
§55-2-3. Entry Upon or Recovery of Lands by Persons Under Disability
§55-2-4. Limitations Upon §55-2-3
§55-2-6. Actions to Recover on Award or Contract Other Than Judgment or Recognizance
§55-2-7. Actions on Bonds of Personal Representatives and Fiduciaries
§55-2-8. Acknowledgment by New Promise
§55-2-9. Effect of Acknowledgment by Personal Representative or Joint Contractor
§55-2-10. Effect of Devise for Payment of Debts
§55-2-11. Action or Scire Facias on Recognizance
§55-2-12. Personal Actions Not Otherwise Provided For
§55-2-13. Foreign Judgments and Decrees
§55-2-14. Suit to Repeal Land Grant
§55-2-15. Special and General Savings as to Persons Under Disability
§55-2-16. Death Before Right to Sue
§55-2-17. When Suit Prevented by Defendant; Actions on Foreign Contracts
§55-2-19. Application of Statute of Limitation to State
§55-2-19a. Collection of Taxes Due State or Any Subdivision Thereof
§55-2-21. Statutes of Limitation Tolled on Claims Assertible in Civil Actions When Actions Commence