210. Pennsylvania. 1. As to lands. From henceforth no person or persons whatsoever¹, shall make entry into any manors³, lands, tenements⁴ or hereditaments, after the expiration⁵ of twenty-one years next after his, her or their right or title to the same first descended⁶ or accrued⁷; nor shall any person or persons whatsoever have or maintain any writ⁸ of right, or any other real or possessory writ or action, for any manor², lands, tenements or hereditaments, of the seisin or possession of him, her or themselves, his, her, or their ancestors, or predecessors⁹, nor declare or allege¹⁰ any other seisin or possession of him, her or themselves, his, her or their ancestors or predecessors, than within twenty-one years next before such writ, action, or suit so hereafter to be sued, commenced or brought. Act of March 26, 1785, s. 2, 2 Smith's Laws Pa. 299.

211. Section 4, provides, that if any person or persons having such right or title be, or shall be at the time such right or title first descended or accrued, within the age of twenty-one years, feme covert¹¹, non compos mentis, imprisoned¹² or beyond the seas, or from and without the United States of America, then such person or persons, and the heir or heirs of such person or persons, shall and may, notwithstanding the said twenty-one years be expired, bring his or their action, or make his or their entry, as he, she or, they might have done, before the passing of this act, so as such person or persons, or the heir or heirs of such person or persons, shall within ten years next after attaining¹³ full age, discoverture, soundness of mind, enlargement out of prison, or coming into the said United States, take benefit of or sue for the same, and no time after the said ten years; and in case such person or persons shall die within the said term of ten years, under any of the disbilities aforesaid, the heir or heirs of such person or persons shall have the same benefit, that such person or persons could or might have had; by living until the disabilities should, have ceased or been removed; and if any abatement¹⁴ happen in any proceeding¹⁵ or proceedings¹⁶ upon such right or title, such proceeding or proceedings may be renewed and continued, within three years from the time of such abatement, but not afterward¹⁷.

212. By the act of March 11, 1815, the provision above contained, so far as the same relates to persons beyond the seas, and from and without the United States of America, is repealed¹⁸.

213. - 2. As to personal actions. All actions of trespass¹⁹ quare clausum fregit, all actions of detinue, trover and replevin, for taking away goods and cattle, all actions upon account, and upon the case, (other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants,) all actions of debt, grounded upon any lending or con- tract²⁰ without specialty²¹, all actions of debt for arrearages of rent, except the proprietaries²²' quit rents, and all actions of trespass, of assault, menace, battery, wounding and imprisonment²³, or any of them, which shall be sued or brought at any time after the five and twentieth day of April, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirteen, shall be commenced and sued within the time and limitation hereafter expressed, and not after; that is to say, the said actions upon the case, other than for slander²⁴, and the said actions for account, and the said actions for trespass, debt, detinue, and replevin for goods or chattels²⁵, and the said actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, within six years next after the cause of such actions or suit, and not after. And the said actions of trespass, of assault, menace, battery, wounding, imprisonment, or any of them, within two years next after the cause of such actions or suit, and not after. And the said actions upon the case for words, within one year next after the words spoken, and not after. Act. of March 27, 1713, s. 1.