170. By the act of February 7, 1799, s. 9, it is enacted¹, that no person who now hath, or hereafter may have, any right or title of entry, into lands, tenements² or hereditaments, shall make entry therein, but within twenty years next after such right or title shall accrue³, and such person shall be barred from any entry afterwards.

171. Provided, That the time during which the person who hath or shall have such right or title of entry shall have been under the age of twenty-one years, feme covert⁴, or insane, shall not be computed⁵ as part of the said limited period of twenty years.

172. By section 10, of the same act, from and after the first day of January, 1803, every real, possessory, ancestral, mixed or other action for any lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be brought or instituted within twenty years next after the, right or title thereto or cause of such action shall accrue, and not after.

173. Provided, That the time during which the person who hath or shall have such right or title or cause of action, shall have been under the age of twenty-one years, feme covert, or insane, shall not be computed as part of the said twenty years.

174. - Section 11. That if a mortgagee and those under him be in possession, of lands, &c. contained in the mortgage or any part thereof, for twenty years after default of payment, then the right or equity⁶ of redemption therein, shall be barred, forever.

175. - Section 13. That no person or persons, bodies politic⁷ or corporate⁸, shall be sued or impleaded by the state of New Jersey⁹, for any land, &c. or any rents, revenues, or profits thereof, but within twenty years after the right, title or cause of action to the same shall accrue and not after.

176. - 2. As to personal actions. It is enacted that all actions of trespass¹⁰ quare clausum fregit; trespass; detinue; trover; replevin; debt, founded on any lending or contract without specialty¹¹, or for arrearages of rent due on a parol demise¹²; of account, (except such actions as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors, agents and servants;) and on the case, (except actions for slander,) shall be commenced and sued within six years next after the cause of such actions shall have accrued¹³, and not after. That all actions of trespass for assault, menace, battery, wounding and imprisonment¹⁴, or any of them, shall be commenced and sued within four years next after the cause of such actions shall have accrued and not after. That every action upon the case for words, shall be commenced and sued within two years next after the words spoken, and not after. Persons within the age of twenty-one years, femes covert or insane, may institute such actions within such time as is before limited after his or her coming to or being of full age, discoverture, or sane memory,