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Session Laws, 1973
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1338                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 651

(3) Has paid the examination fee and the license fee as prescribed by the Board
of Examiners.

SECTION 27. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections 2, 3A(a),
6, and 17 of Article 57 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement
Volume), title "Limitations of Actions," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, and all to read as follows:

2.

If any person entitled to any of the actions mentioned in Sec. 1 shall be at the
time such cause of action accrues within the age of [one and twenty] EIGHTEEN
years or non compos, he or she shall be at liberty to bring the said action within
the respective times so limited after the disability is removed, as other persons
having no such disability might or should have done.

3A.

(a) No person shall commence an action for the recovery of any corporeal
estate in land, leasehold or freehold, or the possession thereof, or make any entry
thereon, unless such action is commenced or entry made within twenty years after
the right to commence such action or make such entry shall have first accrued to
himself or to the person or persons under whom he claims; provided, nevertheless,
that if at the time when the right of action or of entry shall have first accrued, the
person then entitled to such right of action or of entry shall have been under the
age of [21] 18 years or insane, then such person or anyone claiming under him
may commence such action or make such entry at any time within ten years after
such disability shall have terminated, notwithstanding the aforesaid twenty years
has expired.

6.

All actions on sheriffs', coroners' and constables' bonds shall be brought within
five years after the date of such bonds and not afterwards; but the State may sue
on said bonds for her own use at any time; and if any person entitled to suit on a
sheriffs, coroner's or constable's bond shall be at the time of the accruing of any
cause of action on such bond under the age of [twenty-one] EIGHTEEN years or
non compos mentis, he or she shall be at liberty to bring his or her action within
five years after the removal of such disability.

17.

All actions at any time hereafter to be brought for any lands heretofore sold for
taxes or special assessments whereunto any person now has any title or cause to
have or pursue any such action, shall be taken within three years after June 1,
1929; provided, however, that the right of action is not now and will not be then
barred by the now existing statute of limitations; and after the said three years
expire no person or any of his heirs, shall have or maintain any action for any land
so sold; and that all actions for any land hereafter so sold shall be taken within
five years after the day of sale and at no time after five years; and no person that
now has any right or title of entry into any lands so sold shall thereinto enter but
within five years after June 1, 1929; and that no person shall at any time hereafter
make any entry into any lands so sold but within five years next after the date of
sale. And it is further provided that this section shall not apply to [minors]
PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, lunatics and persons non
compos mentis or convicts; but such persons must bring their action within one
year after the removal of their legal disability.

 

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