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ARTICLE 57

ARTICLE 57.

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

	1. Actions other than those upon special-	7. No saving in favor of femes covert,
	ties; to what accounts section not	parties imprisoned or beyond seas,
	applicable.	or out of jurisdiction.
	2 Actions by persons under disability of	8. Suspension of operation in case of
	infancy or insanity; when to be	death of party indebted.
	brought after removal of disability.	9. Time pending petition in insolvency.
	3. Actions upon judgments, bonds or	10. Limitations in bar of patents by state.
	other specialties not to be brought	11. Prosecution or suit for fine; penalty,
	when debt above twelve years' standing. Proviso. Payment of in-	forfeiture or misdemeanor. 12. For blasphemy, sabbath breaking, drunkenness.
	terest. Saving clause. 4. Persons leaving State or moving from	13. For fees of attorneys, solicitors, clerks, registers, sheriffs, constables, and
	county to county.	other officers.
	5. Persons absent when cause of action	14. Ignorance of cause of action, induced
	arose.	by fraud of adverse party.
	6. Actions on sheriffs', coroners' or con-	15. Tax sales in Prince George's County.
	stables' bonds; when brought. Sav-	16. Mistake in cause of action; reversal
	ing in favor of infants and persons	by U. S. Supreme Court.
	non compotes mentis.	17. Tax Sales in Montgomery County.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 23, sec. 2.
1861, ch. 73. 1884, ch. 502. 1933, ch. 54.

1. All actions of account, actions of assumpsit, or on the case, except
as hereinafter provided, 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 libel and slander 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.

Statute begins to run when defendant receives check from trustee in payment of
trustee's personal indebtedness. See note to Art. 37A, Sec. 5. Banking & Trust Co. v.
Bender, 175 Md. 625.

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.