Section 36 – Application; Computation
Section 36. The provisions of law relative to limitations of actions shall apply to a counterclaim by the defendant. The time of such limitation shall be computed as if an action had been commenced therefor at the time the plaintiff’s action was commenced. Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of this section, a counterclaim […]
Section 5 – Penalties and Forfeitures
Section 5. Actions for penalties or forfeitures under penal statutes, if brought by a person to whom the penalty or forfeiture is given in whole or in part, shall be commenced only within one year next after the offence is committed. But if the penalty or forfeiture is given in whole or in part to […]
Section 19 – Special Limitations
Section 19. If a special provision is otherwise made relative to the limitation of any action, any provision of this chapter inconsistent therewith shall not apply.
Section 5a – Consumer Protection Actions
Section 5A. Actions arising on account of violations of any law intended for the protection of consumers, including but not limited to the following: chapter seventy-five C; chapter seventy-five D; section seven N of chapter ninety; sections twenty-one, twenty-one D, twenty-eight, forty-eight, forty-nine, sixty-nine, and seventy of chapter ninety-three; chapter ninety-three A; sections forty-six A […]
Section 19a – Currency; Euro as Commercially Reasonable Substitute and Substantial Equivalent
Section 19A. (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ”Euro”, the currency of participating member states of the European Union that adopt a single currency in accordance with the Treaty on European Union of February 7, 1992. ”Introduction of the euro”, the […]
Section 5b – Civil Rights Actions
Section 5B. Actions arising on account of violations of any law intended for the protection of civil rights, including but not limited to actions alleging employment, housing and other discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, ancestry or handicap shall be commenced only within three years next after the cause […]
Section 20 – Presumption of Satisfaction of Judgment
Section 20. A judgment or decree of a court of record of the United States or of any state thereof shall be presumed to be paid and satisfied at the expiration of twenty years after it was rendered.
Section 6 – Mutual and Open Account Current
Section 6. In an action of contract brought to recover the balance due upon a mutual and open account current, the cause of action shall be held to have accrued at the time of the last item proved in the account.
Section 21 – Recovery of Land
Section 21. An action for the recovery of land shall be commenced, or an entry made thereon, only within twenty years after the right of action or of entry first accrued, or within twenty years after the demandant or the person making the entry, or those under whom they claim, have been seized or possessed […]
Section 7 – Minors and Incapacitated Persons
Section 7. If the person entitled thereto is a minor, or is incapacitated by reason of mental illness when a right to bring an action first accrues, the action may be commenced within the time hereinbefore limited after the disability is removed.