Every action or suit upon a judgment or decree rendered in any other state or country shall be barred, if by the laws of such state or country such action or suit would there be barred, and the judgment or decree be incapable of being otherwise enforced there. And whether so barred or not, no action against a person who shall have resided in this state during the ten years next preceding such action shall be brought upon any such judgment or decree rendered more than ten years before the commencement of such action.
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