日期：2008-03-19 145. - Sec. 21. All actions and suits for any penalty or forfeiture on any penal statute brought by any person to whom the penalty or forfeiture is given in the whole or in part, shall be commenced within one year next after the offence was committe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 139. - Sec. 7. All personal actions or any contract not limited by the foregoing sections or by an other laws of this state shall be brought within twenty years after the accruing of the cause of action. 140. - Sec. 8. When any person shall be disab... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 126. - 2. As to personal actions. The following actions shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of action shall accrue and not afterwards, to wit: 127. - 1st. All actions of debt founded upon any contract or liability not under seal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 118. - Sec. 3. The right to bring an action for the recovery of land or to make an entry thereon shall be deemed first to accrue when any person is disseised, at the time of such disseisin. 119. When any person claims as heir or devisee of one who d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 112. - 9. If, at the time when any cause of action, mentioned in this chapter, shall accrue against any person, he shall be out of the state, the action may be commenced within the time herein limited therefor, after such person shall come into the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 98. First, all actions of debt, founded upon any contract, or liability not under seal, except such as are brought upon the judgment or decree of some court of record of the United States, or of this, or some other of the United States: 99. Secondly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 90. - 3. As to penal actions. When brought by individuals having an interest in the penalty or forfeiture, they are limited to one year; Rev. Stat. T. 10, c. 146, 15; when prosecuted by the state, two years. Id. 16. 91. - 4. As to crimes. Prosecutio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 81. - VI. Of the rules relative to the prescription operating a discharge from debts. Art. 3514. In cases of prescription releasing debts, one may prescribe against a title created by himself, that is, against an obligation which be has contracted.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 69.- 3502. The prescription mentioned in the preceding article, runs, with respect to the merchandise injured or not delivered from the day of the arrival of the vessel, or that on which she ought to have arrived; and in the other cases, from that o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 62. Kentucky. 1. As to lands. The act of limitation takes effect in a writ of right or other possessory action, in thirty years from the seisin of the demandant or his ancestors. In ejectment, in twenty years. See 1 Litt. 380, and Sessions Acts 1838... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 54. Illinois. 1. As to lands. No statute on this subject. 55. - 2. As to personal actions. All actions of trespass quare clausum fregit; all actions of trespass, detinue, actions sur trover, and replevin for taking away goods and chattels, all actio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 46. There is no saving in favor of foreigners or citizens of other states. The courts of this state have adopted the general principles of the English law. 47. Florida. 1. As to lands. Writs of formedon in descender, remainder, or reverter, must be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 38. - 2. As to personal actions. All actions of trespass quare clausum fregit; of detinue; trover and replevin, for taking away goods or chattels; upon account and upon the case; (other than actions between merchant and merchant, their factors and s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 27. - 2. If any person entitled to bring an action in the preceding provisions of this act specified, die before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement of such suit, and such cause of action shall survive to his representatives, his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 18. The savings are as follows: If any person entitled to commence any action in the preceding sections specified, or to make an entry, be, at the time such title shall first descend or accrue; first, within the age of twenty-one years; second, insa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 8. Alabama. 1. As to real estate. 1. After twenty years after title accrued, no entry can be made into lands. 2. No action for the recovery of land can be maintained, if commenced after thirty vears after title accrued. 3. Actions on claims by virtu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-19 LIMITATION , estates. When an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for a longer time than till the contingency shall happen, upon which the estate is to fail, this is denom-inated a limitati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIFE-ESTATE . Vide Estate for life, and 3 Saund. 338, h. note; 2 Kent Com. 285; 4 Kent, Com. 23.; 1 Hov. Suppl. to Ves. jr. 371, 381; 2 Id. 45, 249, 330, 340, 398, 467; 8 Com. Dig. 714. LIFE-RENT , Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIEU, place. Iu lieu of, instead, in the place of. LIEUTENANT. This word has now a narrower meaning than it formerly had; its true meaning is a deputy, a substitute, from the French lieu, (place or post) and tenant (holder). Among civil officers we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-18 LIEN, contracts. In its most extensive signification, this term includes every case in which real or personal property is charged with the payment of any debt or duty; every such charge being denominated a lien on the property. In a more limited sen... 阅读全文>>