275. Virginia. 1. As to lands. All writs² of formedon in descender, remainder, or reverter⁴, of any lands, tenements⁵ or hereditaments, shall be sued out within twenty years next after the title or cause of action accrued⁶, and not afterwards: and no person having any right or title of entry into any lands, &c. shall make any entry but within twenty years next after such right or title accrued. Persons entitled to such writ¹ or right or title of entry, who are under twenty-one years of age, femes covert⁷, non compos mentis, imprisoned⁸, or not within the commonwealth⁹, at the time such right or title accrues¹⁰, may themselves or their heirs, notwithstanding the said twenty years have expired, bring and maintain his action, or make his entry, within ten years next after such disabilities removed, or the death of the person so disabled.

276. In all writs of right, and other actions possessory, any person may maintain a writ of right upon the possession or seisin of his ancestor or predecessor¹¹ within fifty years, or any other possessory action upon the possession or seisin of his ancestor or predecessor, within forty years; but no person shall maintain a real action upon his own possession or seisin, but within thirty years next before the teste of the writ.

277. - 2. As to personal actions. The provisions in relation to personal actions are as follows: 1. Upon all actions upon the case, (other than for slander¹²,) actions of account or assumpsit, (other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants,) debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty¹³, debt for arrears¹⁴ of rent, trespass¹⁵, detinue, trover, or replevin for goods and chattels¹⁶, and trespass quare clausum fregit, five years: 2. Upon actions of assault, battery, wounding, or imprisonment¹⁷, three years: 3. Upon actions of slander, one year. Infants, femes covert, persons non compos mentis, imprisoned, beyond seas, or out of the country, are allowed full time to bring all such actions, except that of slander, after the disability has been removed.

278. All actions or suits, founded upon any account for goods, sold and delivered, or for articles charged in any store account, must be commenced within one year next after the cause of action, or the delivery of the goods, and not after; except that, in the case of the death of the creditors¹⁹ or debtors²¹, before the expiration²² of the said term of one year, the farther time of one year, from the death of such creditor¹⁸ or debtor²⁰, shall be allowed. In suits in the name of any person residing beyond the seas, or out of this country, for recovery of any debt due for goods actually sold and delivered here by his factor or factors, the saving in favor of persons beyond the seas at the time their causes of action accrued, is not to be allowed; but, if any factor shall happen to die before the expiration of the time in which suit should have been brought, his principal shall be allowed two years from his death, to bring suit for any debt due on account of any contract or dealing²³ with such factor. 1 Rev³. Code, 489-491.