247. - Sect¹. 2. No person having right or title of entry into houses or lands, shall tbereinto enter, but within fifteen years next after such right of entry shall accrue².

248. - Sect. 3. The right of any person to the possession of any real estate shall not be impaired³ or affected⁴, by a descent being hereafter cast in consequence of the death of any person in possession of such estate.

249. - Sect. 4. The first two sections of this chapter, so far as they relate to or affect lands granted, given, sequestered⁵ or appropriated to any public, pious⁶ or charitable use, shall take effect from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-two, and, until that day, the laws now in force relating to such lands, shall continue in operation.

250 . - Sect. 5. The following actions shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of action accrued⁷, and not after:

First. All actions of debt founded upon any contract, obligation or liabili-ty, not under seal, excepting such as are brought upon the judgment⁸ or decree of some court of record of the United States, or of this or some other state:

Second. All actions upon judgments⁹ rendered in any court not being a court of record:

Third. All actions of debt for arrearages of rent:

Fourth. All actions of account, assumpsit or on the case, founded on any contract or liability, express or implied:

Fifth. All actions of trespass¹⁰ upon land:

Sixth. All actions of replevin, and all other actions for taking, detaining or injuring goods or chattels¹¹:

Seventh. All other actions on the case, except actions for slanderous¹² words, and for libels.

 

251. Sect. 6. All actions for assault and battery, and for false imprisonment¹³, shall be commenced within three years next after the cause of action shall accrue, and not afterwards.

252. - Sect. 7. All actions for slanderous words, and for libels, shall be commenced within two years next after the cause of action shall accrue, and not after.

253. - Sect. 8. All actions against sheriffs, for the misconduct or negligence¹⁵ of their deputies, shall be commenced within four years next after the cause of action shall accrue, and not afterwards.

254.-Sect. 9. None of the foregoing provisions shall apply to any action brought upon a promissory note, which is signed in the presence of an attesting¹⁶ witness but the action, in such case, shall be commenced within fourteen years next after the cause of action shall accrue thereon, and not after- wards¹⁴.