193. - §4. Provided, nevertheless, that if, on any of the said actions or suits, judgment¹ be given for the plaintiff, and the same be reversed by error, or a verdict pass for the plaintiff, and upon matter alleged² in arrest of judgment, the judgment be given against the plaintiff, that he take nothing by his plaint, writ³ or bill; or if any of the said actions shall be brought by original writ, and the defendant⁴ cannot be attached or legally served with process, in all such cases, the party plaintiff, his heirs, executors or administrators⁵, as the case shall require, may commence a new action or suit, from time to time, within a year after such judgment reversed, or such judgment given against the plaintiff, or till the defendant can be attached or served with the process, so as to compel him to appear and answer. And provided further, that if any person or persons, that is or shall be entitled to any such action or trespass⁶, detinue, action sur trover, replevin, actions of accompt and upon the case, actions of debt for arrearages of rent, actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty⁷, actions of assault, menace, battery, wounding, and imprisonment⁸, actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, actions upon the case for slanderous⁹ words, be, or shall be, at the time of any such cause of action given or accrued¹⁰, fallen or come, within the age of twenty-one years, feme covert¹¹, non compos mentis, imprisoned¹² or beyond the seas, then such person or persons shall be at liberty to bring the same actions, so as they bring the same within such times as are before limited, after their coming to or being of full age, discovert, of sound memory, at large or returned from beyond seas, as other persons having no such impediment might have done. And provided further, that when any person or persons, against whom there is cause of action, shall be beyond sea at the time of such cause of action given or accrued, fallen or come, the person, who shall have such cause of action, may bring his action against them within such time or times as are hereinbefore limited, for bringing such actions after their return.

194. - §5. The limitation of actions shall apply to all bonds, bills, and other securities made transferable by law, after the assignment or endorsement¹³ thereof, in the same manner as it operates against promissory notes.

195. - 3. As to penal¹⁴ Actions. §6. All actions and suits to be brought on any penal act of the general assembly, for the recovery of the penalty therein set forth¹⁵, shall be brought within three years after the cause of such action or suit shall or may have accrued, and not after: Provided, that this act shall not affect the time of bringing suit on any penal act of the general assembly, which hath a time limited therein for bringing the same.

196. Ohio. 1. As to lands. Twenty-one years adverse¹⁶ possession of lands operates a bar, with a saving in favor of infants, femes covert, persons insane, imprisoned or beyond the sea, when the right of action accrues¹⁷. And if a person shall have left the state, and remain out of the same at the time the cause of action accrued; or shall have left the state or county at any time during the period of limitation, (that is, after the right of action has accrued,) and remain out of the same in a place unknown to the person having the right of action, suit may be brought at any time within the period of limitation, after the return of such person to the state or county.