Section 37-1-26 – [Questioning of privilege or franchise granted by municipal corporation.]
No action or suit shall be brought to call in question any privilege or franchise granted by any municipal corporation, unless the same shall be brought within six years after the same shall have been granted, or claimed to have been granted, and any such privilege or franchise heretofore granted by any municipal corporation shall, […]
Section 37-1-27 – Construction projects; limitation on actions for defective or unsafe conditions.
No action to recover damages for any injury to property, real or personal, or for injury to the person, or for bodily injury or wrongful death, arising out of the defective or unsafe condition of a physical improvement to real property, nor any action for contribution or indemnity for damages so sustained, against any person […]
Section 37-1-28 – Real estate; limitation on actions for defects of title.
A. After fifteen years from the date an instrument affecting title to real estate is recorded, no action shall be brought for recovery of the real estate because: (1) the instrument was not signed by the proper officer of a corporation; (2) the record does not show any authorization for the instrument by the board […]
Section 37-1-29 – Limitation [on parent-child relationship determination].
An action to determine a parent and child relationship shall be brought no later than three years after the child has reached the age of majority. History: 1978 Comp., § 37-1-29, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 105, § 18. ANNOTATIONS Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part […]
Section 37-1-30 – Action for damages due to childhood sexual abuse; limitation on actions.
A. An action for damages based on personal injury caused by childhood sexual abuse shall be commenced by a person before the latest of the following dates: (1) the first instant of the person’s twenty-fourth birthday; or (2) three years from the date that a person first disclosed the person’s childhood sexual abuse to a […]
Section 37-1-22 – Title in fee simple by adverse possession; action after ten years barred; definition; payment of taxes.
In all cases where any person or persons, their children, heirs or assigns, shall have had adverse possession continuously and in good faith under color of title for ten years of any lands, tenements or hereditaments and no claim by suit in law or equity effectually prosecuted shall have been set up or made to […]
Section 37-1-23 – Contractual liability; statute of limitations.
A. Governmental entities are granted immunity from actions based on contract, except actions based on a valid written contract. B. Every claim permitted by this section shall be forever barred unless brought within two years from the time of accrual. History: 1953 Comp., § 22-23-1, enacted by Laws 1976, ch. 58, § 24. ANNOTATIONS Repeals […]
Section 37-1-24 – Suits against municipalities or their officers.
No suit, action or proceeding at law or equity for the recovery of judgment upon, or the enforcement or collection of, any sum of money claimed due from any city, town or village in this state, or from any officer of any city, town or village in this state, arising out of or founded upon […]
Section 37-1-25 – [Suit, etc., on municipal and other local governmental bonds or coupons.]
No suit, action or proceeding at law or equity, for the recovery of judgment upon, or the enforcement or collection of, any bond of any county, city, town, school district or other municipality in this state, or upon any coupon thereto attached, shall be commenced except within ten years next after the date of the […]
Section 37-1-16 – Revival of causes of action.
Causes of action founded upon contract shall be revived by the making of any partial or installment payment thereon or by an admission that the debt is unpaid, as well as by a new promise to pay the same; but such admission or new promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be […]