The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-09-24
BUSINESS LAWS IN OHIO.
LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

Actions which must be commence
8 within twenty-one years after til
, cause of action accrued-All actio
, for recovery of real estate.
: Within fifteen years--All actio
on speciality, agreements, contract
or written promises.
Within six years-All action O
contracts not in writing, expresses
or implied, and on a liability h.,
statute for forfeiture or penalty.
| Within four years-All action fo
trespass on real estate; for taking
detaining, or injuring personal prop
erty; and for relief on the GROUND
of fraud
Within one year-All action fol
libel, slander, assault, battery, mali
cious prosecution and false imprison
ment.
Minors, married women, lunatics
and prisoners, are entitled to the
same periods, after their disability is
removed.
Absence of defendant from the
State, or the time during which he
conceali himself to avoid process, Is
not computed in the limitation.
PEDDLERs' LICENSE TO SELL GOODS.
The Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, of any county in this State,
may grant a license For license
to travel on foot throughout the State,
Sl2; ON horse lack, or in a one
horse wagon, $40; in two. horse
wagon; in a boat or other water
craft, $50. A peddler refusing to
show license TO any citizen who
may demand TO see it, shalt be sup
posed to he without one, and may he
proceeded against on such ground,
and fined $50, ten per cent. OF which
shall go To the iutormcr.
LIEN LAWS.
Any person labOring on, or fur
labor or materials for con-
structing, altering or repairing any
shall have lien therefor
on the same, and on the land neces-
sarily connected Herewith. To bind
the lien, he, within sour months from
the performance of such labor, or
delivery of such materials, must de.
liver to the owner of the building an
statement of the particulars
of the claims remaining unpaid
il the account be that of
a mechanic or labOrer, the owner is
to pay the amount, and
deduct the same from what may be
owing by him to the contractor.-
Should the owner fail or refuse to
pay the account, or should the state
ment be that of contractor, or sub
the correctness of the
claim, and the fact of the refusal or
allure OF the owner to pay it, must
DC sworn TO before q magistrate, and
he account and affidavits then filed
n the office OF the Recorder of the |
when the lien shall remain
upon the said building and land for
the term of two years from the com.
I,ouvcrHrnt of suvi, labor, or the Iur-
1ishing of such labor or materials.
Any suit brought within said two
Years, will continue SAID lien till the |
of judgment.
COLLECTION OF DEBTs.
No female, nor any officer or SOL
lier OF the Revolutionary war, can
IAN be-arrested or imprisoned in any
;ase where the action is founded on !
neither can any person be
for debt, except in case
If fraud. An execution against the
person of debtor, and requiring his
'ommittal to the county Jail until he
atisfy the Judgment, or is otherwise
awfully discharged, may issue upon
my judgment for the paymen. of
money, in the event of the Judgment
lebtOr having removed, or commenc-
ID to remove, any of his property
'ut of the jurisdiction of the court.
n order TO prevent the collection OF
money due on the judgment; or
Vhen he is possessed of property
which he fraudulently concesls with
ike intent; or when he has disposed
If his property, or any part thereof,
= r------,s ;.s being tailer in execu-
ion; or if he fraudnlently conIracD-
ID the debt on which the judgment
$ rendered; or when he was arrested
IN an order before Judgment, and
las not been discharged as an insol-
rent debtor, or the order has not
,een set aside. Plaintiffs must, in all
Eases, give a bond, with sufficient
to pay the defendant any
lamages which may ensue from a
wrongful attachment, not exceeding
louble the amount of the claim. a
on giving like bond, may
make q similar affidavit before his
amount is due, and on his filing with
the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, an attachment may issue
against the property, real or person
al, of the debtor. In such actions,
plaintiff, cannot have judgment until
their claim is due