§ 28-3-109. Rent — Official Misconduct — Contracts Not Otherwise Covered — Title Insurance — Demand Notes
The following actions shall be commenced within six (6) years after the cause of action accrued: Actions for the use and occupation of land and for rent; Actions against the sureties of guardians, executors and administrators, sheriffs, clerks, and other public officers, for nonfeasance, misfeasance, and malfeasance in office; and Actions on contracts not otherwise […]
§ 28-3-110. Actions on Public Officers’ and Fiduciary Bonds — Actions Not Otherwise Covered — Affidavit of Conviction and Civil Judgment
The following actions shall be commenced within ten (10) years after the cause of action accrued: Actions against guardians, executors, administrators, sheriffs, clerks, and other public officers on their bonds; Actions on judgments and decrees of courts of record of this or any other state or government; and All other cases not expressly provided for. […]
§ 28-3-111. Open Accounts of Merchants
The limitations provided in this chapter do not apply to such actions as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their agents and factors, while the accounts between them are current. Code 1858, § 2777 (deriv. Acts 1715, ch. 27, § 5); Shan., § 4474; Code 1932, § 8602; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § […]
§ 28-3-112. Mutual Accounts Between Persons Not Merchants
When there are mutual accounts between persons who are not merchants, the time is computed from the true date of the last item, unless the account is liquidated and a balance struck. Code 1858, § 2778; Shan., § 4475; Code 1932, § 8603; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-312.
§ 28-3-113. Municipal Bonds
Actions against any county, city, town, utility district, special school district or any other municipality or political subdivision of the state for the payment of any bond issued thereby, or for the payment of any coupon representing interest on such bond, shall be commenced within fifteen (15) years after the maturity date of such bond […]
§ 28-3-114. Actions for Faulty Surveying
All actions to recover damages against any person engaged in the practice of surveying for any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be brought within four (4) years from the date the survey is recorded on the plat. Any such action not instituted within this four (4) year period shall be forever barred. The […]
§ 28-3-115. Attaching or Executing Against Art Work
No process of attachment, execution, sequestration, replevin, distress, subpoena or any kind of seizure, whether civil or criminal, shall be served or levied upon any work of art, as defined in this section while the same is en route to or from, or while on exhibition or deposited by an exhibitor at any exhibition held […]
§ 28-3-116. Action for Injury or Illness Based on Child Sexual Abuse
As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: “Child sexual abuse” means any act set out in § 37-1-602(a)(3), that occurred when the victim was a minor; “Discovery” means when the injured person becomes aware that the injury or illness was caused by child sexual abuse. Discovery that the injury or illness was […]
§ 28-3-104. Personal Tort Actions; Actions Against Certain Professionals
Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2), the following actions shall be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrued: Actions for libel, injuries to the person, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, or breach of marriage promise; Civil actions for compensatory or punitive damages, or both, brought under the federal civil rights statutes; and […]
§ 28-3-105. Property Tort Actions — Statutory Liabilities
The following actions shall be commenced within three (3) years from the accruing of the cause of action: Actions for injuries to personal or real property; Actions for the detention or conversion of personal property; and Civil actions based upon the alleged violation of any federal or state statute creating monetary liability for personal services […]