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Home » US Law » 2020 Arkansas Code » Title 18 - Property » Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions » Chapter 61 - Statutes of Limitations

§ 18-61-101. Actions to recover land, tenements, or hereditaments

(a) (1) No person or his or her heirs shall have, sue, or maintain any action or suit, either in law or equity, for any lands, tenements, or hereditaments after seven (7) years once his or her right to commence, have, or maintain the suit shall have come, fallen, or accrued. (2) All suits, either […]

§ 18-61-103. Ejectment

No action of ejectment, when the plaintiff does not claim title to the lands, shall be brought or maintained when the plaintiff, or his or her testator or intestate, has been five (5) years out of possession.

§ 18-61-104. Forcible entry and detainer — Unlawful detainer

Three (3) years’ peaceable and uninterrupted possession of the premises immediately preceding the filing of a complaint for forcible entry and detainer or unlawful detainer may be pleaded by any defendant in bar of the plaintiff’s demand for possession.

§ 18-61-105. Recovery of lands sold at judicial sales generally

All actions against the purchaser or his or her heirs or assigns for the recovery of lands sold at judicial sales shall be brought within five (5) years after the date of the sale and not thereafter, except for minors, persons of unsound mind, and persons imprisoned overseas, the period shall be three (3) years […]

§ 18-61-106. Recovery of lands held under tax title

(a) No action for the recovery of any lands or for the possession thereof against any person or persons, their heirs and assigns, who may hold such lands by virtue of a purchase thereof at a sale by the collector, or the Commissioner of State Lands, for the nonpayment of taxes, or who may have […]