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 37-1-17 – [Other statutes prescribing limitations unaffected.]
None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to any action or suit which, by any particular statute of this state, is limited to be commenced within a different time, nor shall this chapter be construed to repeal any existing statute of the state which provides a limitation of any action; but in such […]
Section 37-1-18 – [Limitations not to run against trust actions fraudulently concealed.]
None of the provisions of this chapter shall run against causes of actions originating in or arising out of trusts, when the defendant has fraudulently concealed the cause of action, or the existence thereof from the party entitled or having the right thereto. History: Laws 1880, ch. 5, § 17; C.L. 1884, § 1877; C.L. […]
Section 37-1-19 – [Applicability of limitations.]
The above limitations and provisions shall not apply to evidences of debt intended to circulate as money; but shall, in other respects, be applicable in all other actions brought by or against all bodies corporate or politic, except when otherwise expressly declared. History: Laws 1880, ch. 5, § 19; C.L. 1884, § 1879; C.L. 1897, […]
Section 37-1-20 – [No sale upon mortgages, etc., when action barred.]
No lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels shall be sold under any power of sale contained in any mortgage, deed of trust or other written instrument of like effect, where an action or suit upon the indebtedness secured thereby is barred by the provisions of Chapter 68, New Mexico Code of 1915. History: Laws 1927, […]
Section 37-1-21 – Repealed.
History: Laws 1857-1858, p. 64; C.L. 1865, ch. 73, § 1; C.L. 1884, § 1880; C.L. 1897, § 2937; Laws 1899, ch. 63, § 1; Code 1915, § 3364; C.S. 1929, § 83-119; 1941 Comp., § 27-120; 1953 Comp., § 23-1-21; Laws 1973, ch. 138, § 14; 1979, ch. 354, § 1; 1978 Comp., § […]
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 […]