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Section 508:2 – Real Actions.

    508:2 Real Actions. – I. No action for the recovery of real estate shall be brought after 20 years from the time the right to recover first accrued to the party claiming it or to some persons under whom the party claims. II. No action for the recovery of real estate pursuant to rights […]

Section 508:3 – Disabilities.

    508:3 Disabilities. – If the person first entitled to bring an action for recovery of real estate is an infant or mentally incompetent at the time the right accrues, the action may be brought within 5 years after such disability is removed. Source. RS 181:2. CS 192:2. GS 202:2. GL 221:2. PS 217:2. PL […]

Section 508:4 – Personal Actions.

    508:4 Personal Actions. – I. Except as otherwise provided by law, all personal actions, except actions for slander or libel, may be brought only within 3 years of the act or omission complained of, except that when the injury and its causal relationship to the act or omission were not discovered and could not […]

Section 508:4-b – Damages From Construction.

    508:4-b Damages From Construction. – I. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all actions to recover damages for injury to property, injury to the person, wrongful death or economic loss arising out of any deficiency in the creation of an improvement to real property, including without limitation the design, labor, materials, engineering, planning, […]

Section 508:4-c – Elimination of Ad Damnum Clause.

    508:4-c Elimination of Ad Damnum Clause. – In any personal action, the declaration or other affirmative pleading shall not specify or allege the amount of damages claimed, but shall, instead, state that the damages claimed are within any minimum or maximum jurisdictional limits of the court to which the pleading is addressed. Source. 1985, […]