746 LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. [ART. 69.

ARTICLE LXIX.
LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

1 Within what time actions shall be com- menced , exception 2 Within what time after disabilities re- moved 3 Actions on sealed Instruments or specialty , within what time after disabilities re- moved 4 Persons absent or absconding not to have benefit of 5 Persons absent when cause of action arises, not to have benefit of 6. Actions on sheriffs', coroners' and consta- bles' bonds.

7 When to run when person dies indebted and personal estate not sufficient 8 Time intervening between petition of in- solvent debtor and dismissal of petition not to be computed 9 Possession of twenty years to bar right or claim derived from State 10 Prosecutions for fines or penalties 11 Blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking, or drunken- ness 12 Fees 13 When right to bring suit accrues , fraud

1861, c 73. Within what times actions shall be com- menced 1 Md 115, 5 Md 443 , 10 Md 234, 11 Md 199, 18 Md 320 , 21 Md 422 , 30 Md 362 , 31 Md 302 , 32 Md 1S1 . 38 Md 331 , 46 Md 289, 604, 47 Md 196 1 H & G 204 6 H & J 57 6 G 55 9 G 338	1. All actions of account, actions of assumpsit, or on the case, actions of debt on simple contract, or for rent in arrear, detinue or replevin, all actions for trespass, for injuries to real or personal prop- erty, all actions for illegal arrest, false imprisonment, or violation of the twenty-third, twenty-sixth, thirty-first and thirty-second arti- cles of the declaration of rights, or any of them; or of any pro- visions of this code touching the writ of habeas corpus, or proceed- ings thereunder, shall be commenced within three years from the time the cause of action accrued , and all actions on the case for words, and actions of assault, battery, and wounding, or any of them, within one year from the time the cause of action accrued ;
Exception	this section not to apply to such accounts, as concern the trade or merchandise between merchant and merchants, their factors and servants which are not residents within this State.
Art 57, s 2 1715, c 25, s 3 , 1818, c 216 Within what time after dis- abilities re- moved 34 Md 1 1 G & J 395.	2. If any person entitled to any of the actions mentioned in the preceding section, shall be at the time such cause of action accrues within the age of one and twenty years, feme covert, non compos, or imprisoned, he shall be at liberty to bring the said action within the respective times before limited after the disability is removed, as other persons having no such disability might or should have donc.
Id s 3 1715, c 23, s 6 , 1729, c 24, ss 21, 22 , 1818, c. 216 Actions on sealed instru- ment or spe- cialty 18 Md 502 , 34 Md 93 , 35 Md 515 , 36 Md 509 , 41 Md 380 , 44 Md 492 10 G & J 50	3. No bill, testamentary, administration, or other bond (except sheriffs' and constables' bonds), judgment, recognizance, statute merchant, or of the staple, or other specialty whatsoever, except such as shall be taken for the use of the State, shall be good and pleadable, or admitted in evidence against any person in this State after the principal debtor and creditor have been both dead twelve years, or the debt or thing in action above twelve years' standing, saving to all persons that shall be under the aforementioned im- pediments of infancy, coverture, insanity of mind, or imprisonment,
Within what time after dis- abilities re- moved	the full benefit of all such bills, bonds, judgments, recognizances, statutes merchants, or of the staple or other specialties, for the space of sis years after such disability removed.