 | United States. Supreme Court - 1858 - 676 pages
...prescribing shorter limitations for other causes of action, declares that "all actions of debt grounded on any contract in writing shall be commenced and sued...within four years next after the cause of such action, and not after." Without criticising the peculiar expressions used in these acts, it is obvious that... | |
 | John Cross - 1859 - 522 pages
...without specialty, and all actions of debt for arrearages of rent, shall be commenced and sued within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after." The stat. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27, s. 40, enacts, " That no action or suit, or other proceeding, shall... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Stewart Drewry, John Jackson Smale - 1860 - 784 pages
...to pay. The language of that statute is, that all actions of debt &c. shall be sued for within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not afterwards, and the word acknowledgment is not used in that statute. The construction which the Courts... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 840 pages
...the action on simple contract is one), (other than slander), shall be commenced and sued within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after. Advantage must be taken of this statute by pleading it, although it should appear on the face of the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1860 - 712 pages
...the words of the statute ? " All actions of account and upon the case shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after." The strong case is, Short v. McCarthy, (5 Eng. CLR 403,) lately decided Campbell v. Vining. in the... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1861 - 724 pages
...detinue, replevin, and trespass either for goods and chattels or quare clausum frcgit, within three years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not afier ; except such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise, between merchant and merchant, and... | |
 | 1852 - 1048 pages
...commenced within 1851.] three years after the end of the then present session of Parliament, or within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after: and whereas a similar enactment is contained in an act passed in Ireland, in the tenth year of the... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 652 pages
...quare clavsum freg~it, within three years next after the ratification of this act, or within three years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after." This statute bars the particular actions it recites, and no others. It does not bar actions of debt... | |
 | Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer, New Jersey - 1868 - 1198 pages
...2. All actions of trespass for assault, menace, battery, wounding and imprisonment, or any of them, shall be commenced and sued within four years next after the cause of such action shall have accrued, and not after. 10. SEC. 3. Every action upon the case for words shall be commenced... | |
 | 1868 - 576 pages
...of Limitations, 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, s. 3, which provides that certain actions must commence within six years next after the cause of such action or suit and not after ; and the Statute 3 and 4, W. IV. c. 42, s. 8, regulating the period of limitation for actions on deeds... | |
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... all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract, without specialty, and all actions of debt for arrearages of rent, shall be commenced and sued within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after. 
