ART. 57]

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

1387

ARTICLE LVII

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

1. Actions other than those upon specialties; to what accounts section not applicable. 2. Actions by persons under disabil- ity of Infancy or insanity; when to be brought after removal of disability. 3. Actions upon Judgments, bonds or other specialties not to be brought when debt is above twelve years' standing. Proviso. Payment of interest. Saving clause. 4. Persons leaving the State or mov- ing from county to county. 5. Persons absent when cause of ac- tion arose. 6. Actions on sheriffs', coroners' or constables' bonds; when to be brought. Saving in favor of In- fants and persons non compotes mentis.

7. No saving in favor of femes covert, parties Imprisoned or beyond seas, or out of Jurisdiction. 8. Suspension of operation in case of death of party Indebted. 9. Time pending petition In insol- vency. 10. Limitations in bar of patents by state. 11. Prosecution or suit for fine; pen- alty, forfeiture or misdemeanor. 12. For blasphemy, sabbath breaking, drunkenness. 13. For fees of attorneys, solicitors, clerks, registers, sheriffs, con- stables, and other officers. 14. Ignorance of cause of action, In- duced by fraud of adverse party. 15. Tax sales in Prince George's county.

1904, art 57, sec. 1. 1888, art 57, sec. 1. 1860, art. 57, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 23, sec. 2.
1861, ch. 73. 1884, ch. 502.

1. All actions of account, actiong of assumpsit, or on the case,
actions of debt on simple contract, detinue or replevin, all actions
for trespass, for injuries to real or personal property, all actions for
illegal arrest, false imprisonment, or violation of the twenty-third,
twenty-sixth, thirty-first and thirty-second articles of the declaration
of rights, or any of them, or of the existing, or any future provisions
of the code touching the writ of habeas corpus, or proceedings there-
under, and all actions, whether of debt, ejectment or of any other
description whatsoever, brought to recover rent in arrear, reserved under
any form of lease, whether for ninety-nine years renewable forever, or
for a greater or lesser period, and all distraints issued to recover such
rent shall be commenced, sued or issued within three years from the
time the cause of action accrued; and all actions on the case for words,
and all actions of assault, battery and wounding, or any of them, within
one year from the time the cause of action accrued; this section not to
apply to such accounts as concern the trade or merchandise between
merchant and merchant, their factors and servants who are not residents
within this State.