BY STAT. 19 & 20 VICT., c. 97. All actions of account, or for not accounting, and suits for such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, and no claim in respect of a matter which arose more than six years before the commencement of such action, shall be enforceable by reason only of some other matter of claim comprised in the same account having arisen within the six years. Within No person who shall be entitled to any action or suit with respect to which the period of limitation is fixed by the Act of 21 James I., c. 16, s. 3; or by the Act of the 4th Queen Anne, c. 16, s. 17; or by 53 Geo. III., c. 127, s. 5; or by 3 & 4 Wm. IV., c. 27, ss. 40, 41, and 42; and chap. 42, s. 3 (16 & 17 Vict., c. 113, s. 20, as to Ireland), shall be entitled to any additional time within which to commence same, by reason only of such person or persons being at the time such cause of action or suit accrued beyond the seas, (2) or imprisoned. No additional time is given to a person entitled to an action or suit against a debtor within the United Kingdom, by reason of one or more joint debtors being beyond the seas,-though a judgment recovered against joint debtors in the United Kingdom is to be no bar to proceeding against others beyond the seas after their return. 6 years from the time the cause of action accrued, or from last written acknowledgment or part-payment of principal or interest. BY STAT. 19 & 20 VICT., c. 97 (continued). In reference to 9 Geo. IV., c. 14, ss. 1 and 8 (as to In reference to the provisions of 21 Jas. I., c. 16, s. 3, An acknowledgment in MISCELLANEOUS ACTS OF LIMITATION. By 11 & 12 Vict., c. 44. No action shall be brought, against any Justice of the Peace for anything done by him in the execution of his office unless the same be commenced 6 calendar months of the act complained of. 139 By 11 & 12 Vict., c. 63. No action against the General Board of Health, or any local board, or any officer of either, but 138 Within All By 9 & 10 Vict., c. 95, the County Courts Act. actions and prosecutions against any person for anything the fact committed, and after done in pursuance of this Act. 3 calendar months after one month's notice of action. Within N.B.-The various railway and local Acts have usually a limitation period fixed, and require notice of action. Besides these, the Turnpike Roads Act, 3 Geo. IV., c. 126, s. 147; the Highways Act, 5 & 6 Wm. IV., c. 50, s. 109; the Commons Inclosure Act, 8 & 9 Vict., c. 118, s. 163; and many others too numerous to specify. APPENDIX. ANNO TERTIO & QUARTO GULIELMI IV. REGIS. CA P. XXVII. An Act for the Limitation of Actions and Suits relating to Real Property, and for simplifying the Remedies for trying the Rights thereto. [24th July, 1833.] the Words E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Words and Expressions herein-after mentioned, Meaning which in their ordinary Signification have a more con- in the Act. fined or a different Meaning, shall in this Act, except where the Nature of the Provision or the Context of the Act shall exclude such Construction, be interpreted as follows; (that is to say,) the Word "Land" shall extend "Land." to Manors, Messuages, and all other corporeal Hereditaments whatsoever, and also to Tithes (other than Tithes belonging to a Spiritual or Eleemosynary Corporation Sole), and also to any Share, Estate, or Interest in them or any of them, whether the same shall be a Freehold or Chattel Interest, and whether Freehold or Copyhold, or held according to any other Tenure; and the Word "Rent" shall extend to all Heriots, and to all Services "Rent." and Suits for which a Distress may be made, and to all Annuities and periodical Sums of Money charged upon or payable out of any Land (except Moduses or Compositions belonging to a Spiritual or Eleemosynary Cor- Person poration Sole); and the Person through whom another through Person is said to claim shall mean any Person by, another through, or under, or by the Act of whom the Person so claims. C 2 whom |