§ 28-3-102. Actions Against Personal Representative
All actions against the personal representative of a decedent, for demands against such decedent, shall be brought within seven (7) years after the decedent’s death, notwithstanding any disability existing; otherwise they will be forever barred. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to extend the time limited by §§ 30-2-310, 30-2-314 and 30-2-315. Code 1858, […]
§ 28-3-103. Slander Actions
Actions for slanderous words spoken shall be commenced within six (6) months after the words are uttered. Code 1858, § 2771 (deriv. Acts 1715, ch. 27, § 5); Shan., § 4468; Code 1932, § 8594; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-303.
§ 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 […]
§ 28-3-106. Recovery of Gambling Losses
Actions to recover money or goods lost at any kind of gambling or betting, and paid or delivered: If brought by the loser, shall be commenced within ninety (90) days next after such payment or delivery; If brought for the use of the spouse, child or children, or next of kin, within twelve (12) months […]
§ 28-3-107. Actions for Usury
No action shall be brought on claim for usury after two (2) years from the date of the payment of the debt upon which such claim for usury shall be based.
§ 28-3-108. Actions Against Sureties of Collecting Officer
Actions against sureties of any collecting officer, for failing to pay over money collected, when the collecting officer has made return of an execution or other process that the money is made or the process satisfied, shall be commenced within three (3) years from the return of the process. Code 1858, § 2774 (deriv. Acts […]
§ 28-2-110. Action Barred by Nonpayment of Taxes
Any person having any claim to real estate or land of any kind, or to any legal or equitable interest therein, the same having been subject to assessment for state and county taxes, who and those through whom such person claims have failed to have the same assessed and to pay any state and county […]
§ 28-2-101. Adverse Possession — State Conveyance
Any person having had, either personally or through those through whom that person’s claim arises, individually or through whom a person claims, seven (7) years’ adverse possession of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, granted by this state or the state of North Carolina, holding by conveyance, devise, grant, or other assurance of title, purporting to […]
§ 28-2-102. Action Barred After Seven Years
Any person, and those claiming under such person neglecting for the term of seven (7) years to avail themselves of the benefit of any title, legal or equitable, by action at law or in equity, effectually prosecuted against the person in possession, under recorded assurance of title, as in § 28-2-101, are forever barred. Code […]