160. Actions on the case for words, one year after the words spoken; and writs¹ of error shall be brought within five years after the judgment² or order of complaint shall be rendered and not after. Act of July 4, 1807.

161. The plaintiff may within one year commence a new suit when a former judgment has been reversed, or the plaintiff has suffered a nonsuit.

162. - 3. As to criminal actions. Actions, suits, indictments³, or informations, (if the punishment be fine and imprisonment,) must be brought within two years after the offence has been committed, and not after.

163. New Hampshire. 1. As to lands. No action can be maintained for the recovery of lands, unless upon a seisin within twenty years, except by persons under disability, that is, by those under twenty-one years of age, femes covert⁴, non compos mentis, imprisoned⁵, or without the limits of the United States, who may sue within five years after the disability has been removed.

164. - 2. As to personal actions. Actions in general are limited to be brought within six years after they have accrued⁶; but actions of trespass⁷, assault and battery, are limited to three years and actions of slander⁸ to two. Infants, femes covert, persons imprisoned, or beyond sea, without the Iimits of the United States, or non compos mentis, may bring an action within the same time, after the disability has been removed. When the defendant⁹ has left the state before the action accrued, and left no property there which could have been attached, then the whole time is allowed after his return.

165. New Jersey¹⁰. 1. As to lands. By the act of June 5, 1787, it was enacted¹¹,

166. - §1. At the aforesaid date, that sixty years actual possession of lands, tenements¹² or other real estate uninterruptedly continued by occupancy, descent, conveyance¹³ or otherwise, in whatever way or manner such possession might have commenced or been continued, shall vest a full and complete right and title in every actual possessor or occupier of such lands, tenements or other real estate, and shall be a good and sufficient bar to all claims that may be made or actions commenced, by any person or persons whatsoever¹⁴ for the recovery of such lands, &c.

167. - §2. And that thirty years' actual possession of lands, &c. uninterruptedly continued as aforesaid, wherever such possession commenced or is founded upon a proprietory right duly laid thereon, and recorded in the surveyor general's office of the division in which such location was made, or in the secretary's office, agreeably to law; or, wherever such possession was obtained by a fair bona fide purchase of such land, &c. of any person in possession, and supposed to have a legal right and title thereto, or of the agent or agents of such person or persons, shall be a good and sufficient bar to all prior locations, rights, titles, conveyances¹⁵ or claims whatever, not followed by actual possession as aforesaid, and shall vest an absolute right and title in the actual possessor or occupier of all such lands, &c.

168. Provided, That if any person or persons having a right or title to lands, &c. shall, at the time of the said right or title first descended¹⁶ or accrued, be within twenty-one years of age, feme covert, non compos, imprisoned, or without the United States, then such person or persons, and his heir or heirs may, notwithstanding the aforesaid times are expired, be en-titled to his or their action for the same, so as such person or persons, or his or their heirs, commence or sue forth¹⁷ his or their actions within five years, after his or their full age, discoverture, coming of sound mind, enlargement out of prison, or coming within any of the United States, and at no other time.

169. And provided that any citizens of this, or any of the United States, and his or their heirs, having such right, &c. may, notwithstanding the aforesaid times expired, commence his or their action for such lands, &c., at any time within five years next after the passing of this act, and not afterwards.