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ARTICLE 57.

ARTICLE 57.

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

1. Actions other than those upon special- ties; to what accounts section not applicable. 2. Actions by persons under disability 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 above twelve years' standing. Proviso. Payment of in- terest. Saving clause. 4. Persons leaving State or moving from county to county. 5. Persons absent when cause of action arose. 6. Actions on sheriffs', coroners' or con- stables' bonds; when brought. Sav- ing in favor of infants 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 insolvency. 10. Limitations in bar of patents by state. 11. Prosecution or suit for fine; penalty, forfeiture or misdemeanor. 12. For blasphemy, sabbath breaking, drunkenness. 13. For fees of attorneys, solicitors, clerks, registers, sheriffs, constables, and other officers. 14. Ignorance of cause of action, induced by fraud of adverse party. 15. Tax sales in Prince George's county. 16. Mistake in cause of action; reversal by U. S. Supreme Court.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 23, sec. 2. 1861, ch. 73. 1884, ch. 502.

1. All actions of account, actions 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 thereunder, 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.

When statute begins to run.

The statute begins to run from time cause of action arises, and not from time
promise is made. Young v. Mackall, 3 Md. Ch. 399; Murdock v. Winter, 1 H. & G.
471.