54. Illinois. 1. As to lands. No statute¹ on this subject.

55. - 2. As to personal actions. All actions of trespass² quare clausum fregit; all actions of trespass, detinue, actions sur trover, and replevin for taking away goods and chattels³, all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors and servants; all actions of debt, grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty⁴; all actions of debt for arrearages of rent; all actions of assault, menace, battery, wounding, and imprisonment⁶, or any of them, which shall be sued or brought, shall be commenced within the following times, and not after actions upon the case, other than for slander⁷; actions of account, and actions of trespass, debt, detinue and replevin for goods and chattels, and actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, within five years next after the cause of action or suit, and not after; and the actions of trespass for assault, battery, wounding, imprisonment, or any of them, within three years next after cause of action or suit, and not after; and actions for slander, within one year next after the words spoken. There are no savings⁸, by the statute, in favor of citizens of other states, or foreigners.

56. Indiana. 1. As to lands. "No action of ejectment shall be commenced for the recovery of lands or tenements⁹ against any person or persons who may have been in the quiet and peaceable possession of the same under an adverse¹⁰ title for twenty years, either in his own right, or the right of any other person or persons under whom he claims; and any action of ejectment commenced against the provisions of this act shall be dismissed at the cost of the party commencing the same. Provided, however, that this act shall not be so construed¹¹ as to affect any person who may be a feme covert¹², non compos mentis, a minor¹³, or any person beyond the seas, within five years after such disability is removed." Rev¹⁴. Code, c. 36, see. 3, January 13, 1831.

57. - 2. As to personal actions. "All actions of debt on simple contract, and for rent in arrear⁵, action on the case, (other than slander,) actions of account, trespass quare clausum fregit, detinue, and replevin for goods and chattels, shall be commenced within five years after the cause of action accrued¹⁵, and not after. All actions of trespass, for assault and battery, and for wounding and imprisonment, shall be commenced within three years, and not after." Rev. Code, 6. 81, sec. 12, January 29, 1831.

58. - 3. Crimes. "All criminal prosecutions¹⁶ for offences, the affixed¹⁷ penalty of which is three dollars, or less, shall be commenced within thirty days," &c. "All prosecutions for offences, except those the fixed¹⁸ penalties of which do not exceed three dollars, and except treason, murder, arson²⁰, burglary, man stealing, horse stealing, and forgery²¹, shall be instituted within two years, &c." Revised Code, c. 26, Feb. 10, 1831.

59. - 4. Penal¹⁹ actions. "All actions upon any act of assembly, now or hereafter to be made, when the right is limited to the party aggrieved²², shall be commenced within two years, &c., and all actions of slander shall be commenced within one year, &c., saving the right of infants, femes covert, persons non compos mentis, or without the jurisdiction²³ of the United States, until one year after their several disabilities are removed." Sec. 12.

60. - 5. Savings. Provided, that no statute of limitation shall ever be pleaded as a bar, or operate as such on an instrument or contract in writing, whether the same be sealed or unsealed, nor to running accounts between merchant and merchant. Rev. Code, eh. 81, s. 12.

61. And provided further, that on all contracts made in this state, if the defendant²⁴ shall be without the same when the cause of action accrued, said action shall not be barred until the times above limited shall have expired, after the defendant shall have come within the jurisdiction thereof, and on all contracts made without the state, if the defendant shall have left the state or territory when the same was made, and come within the jurisdiction of this state before the cause of action accrued thereon, the plaintiff shall not be barred his right of action, until the time above limited after the said demand shall have been brought within the jurisdiction of this state. Rev. Code, ch. 81, s. 12.