411.506 Statute of limitations.
(1) An action for default under a lease contract, including breach of warranty or indemnity, shall be commenced within 4 years after the cause of action accrued. By the original lease contract the parties may reduce the period of limitation to not less than one year.
(2) A cause of action for default accrues when the act or omission on which the default or breach of warranty is based is or should have been discovered by the aggrieved party, or when the default occurs, whichever is later. A cause of action for indemnity accrues when the act or omission on which the claim for indemnity is based is or should have been discovered by the indemnified party, whichever is later.
(3) If an action commenced within the time limit under sub. (1) is so terminated as to leave available a remedy by another action for the same default or breach of warranty or indemnity, the other action may be commenced after the expiration of the time limit and within 6 months after the termination of the first action unless the termination resulted from voluntary discontinuance or from dismissal for failure or neglect to prosecute.
(4) This section does not alter the law on tolling of the statute of limitations nor does it apply to a cause of action that accrues before July 1, 1992.
History: 1991 a. 148.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 411 - Uniform commercial code — leases.
411.103 - Definitions and index of definitions.
411.104 - Leases subject to other law.
411.105 - Territorial application of chapter to goods covered by certificate of title.
411.107 - Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after default.
411.109 - Option to accelerate at will.
411.202 - Final written expression: parol or extrinsic evidence.
411.204 - Formation in general.
411.206 - Offer and acceptance in formation of lease contract.
411.207 - Course of performance or practical construction.
411.208 - Modification, rescission and waiver.
411.209 - Lessee under finance lease as beneficiary of supply contract.
411.212 - Implied warranty of merchantability.
411.213 - Implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose.
411.214 - Exclusion or modification of warranties.
411.215 - Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied.
411.216 - Third-party beneficiaries of express and implied warranties.
411.218 - Insurance and proceeds.
411.220 - Effect of default on risk of loss.
411.221 - Casualty to identified goods.
411.301 - Enforceability of lease contract.
411.302 - Title to and possession of goods.
411.304 - Subsequent lease of goods by lessor.
411.305 - Sale or sublease of goods by lessee.
411.306 - Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law.
411.308 - Special rights of creditors.
411.309 - Lessor's and lessee's rights when goods become fixtures.
411.310 - Lessor's and lessee's rights when goods become accessions.
411.311 - Priority subject to subordination.
411.401 - Insecurity: adequate assurance of performance.
411.402 - Anticipatory repudiation.
411.403 - Retraction of anticipatory repudiation.
411.404 - Substituted performance.
411.405 - Excused performance.
411.406 - Procedure on excused performance.
411.407 - Irrevocable promises: finance leases.
411.502 - Notice after default.
411.503 - Modification or impairment of rights and remedies.
411.504 - Liquidation of damages.
411.506 - Statute of limitations.
411.507 - Proof of market rent: time and place.
411.509 - Lessee's rights on improper delivery; rightful rejection.
411.510 - Installment lease contracts: rejection and default.
411.511 - Merchant lessee's duties as to rightfully rejected goods.
411.512 - Lessee's duties as to rightfully rejected goods.
411.513 - Cure by lessor of improper tender or delivery; replacement.
411.514 - Waiver of lessee's objections.
411.515 - Acceptance of goods.
411.517 - Revocation of acceptance of goods.
411.518 - Cover; substitute goods.
411.520 - Lessee's incidental and consequential damages.
411.521 - Lessee's right to specific performance or replevin.
411.522 - Lessee's right to goods on lessor's insolvency.
411.524 - Lessor's right to identify goods to lease contract.
411.525 - Lessor's right to possession of goods.
411.526 - Lessor's stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise.
411.527 - Lessor's rights to dispose of goods.
411.528 - Lessor's damages for nonacceptance, failure to pay, repudiation or other default.
411.529 - Lessor's action for the rent.
411.530 - Lessor's incidental damages.
411.531 - Standing to sue 3rd parties for injury to goods.