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MS Code § 15-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-27. Limitations applicable to action by ward against guardian or surety

 All actions against a guardian and the sureties on his bond, or either of them, by the ward, shall be commenced within five years next after the ward shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and not after.
MS Code § 15-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-29. Limitations applicable to actions on accounts and unwritten contracts

 Except as otherwise provided in the Uniform Commercial Code, actions on an open account or account stated not acknowledged in writing, signed by the debtor, and on any unwritten contract, express or implied, shall be commenced within three (3) years next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after, except that an action based on an unwritten contract of employment shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.
MS Code § 15-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-31. When statute commences to run on open accounts

 In all actions brought to recover the balance due upon a mutual and open current account, where both parties are merchants or traders, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of the true date of the last item proved in such account. In all other actions upon open accounts, the period of limitation shall commence to run against the several items thereof from the dates at which the same respectively became due and payable.
MS Code § 15-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-33. Limitations applicable to actions and suits for penalty or forfeiture

 All actions and suits for any penalty or forfeiture on any penal statute, brought by any person to whom the penalty or forfeiture is given, in whole or in part, shall be commenced within one year next after the offense was committed, and not after.
MS Code § 15-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-35. Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts

 All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.
MS Code § 15-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-37. Limitations applicable to actions to recover property sold by order of chancery court or pursuant to decree of partition

 An action shall not be brought to recover any property (a) sold by order of a chancery court, where the sale is in good faith and the purchase money paid, or (b) partited in kind or sold for partition where the purchase money is paid, unless such action is brought within two years after possession is taken by the purchaser under the sale of the property or by the taker under the decree of partition.
MS Code § 15-1-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-39. Limitations applicable to actions involving certain trusts

 Bills for relief, in case of the existence of a trust not cognizable by the courts of common law and in all other cases not herein provided for, shall be filed within ten years after the cause thereof shall accrue and not after, saving, however, to all persons under disability of infancy or unsoundness of mind, the like period of time after such disability shall be removed. However, the saving in favor of persons under disability of unsoundness of mind shall never extend longer than thirty-one years.
MS Code § 15-1-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-41. Limitations applicable to actions arising from deficiencies in constructions, or improvements to real property

 No action may be brought to recover damages for injury to property, real or personal, or for an injury to the person, arising out of any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or construction of an improvement to real property, and no action may be brought for contribution or indemnity for damages sustained on account of such injury except by prior written agreement providing for such contribution or indemnity, against any person, firm or corporation performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision of construction or construction of such improvement to real property more than six (6) years after the written acceptance or actual occupancy or use, whichever occurs first, of such improvement by the owner thereof. This limitation shall apply to actions against persons, firms and corporations performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision of construction or construction of such improvement to real property for the State of Mississippi or any agency, department, institution or political subdivision thereof as well as for any private or nongovernmental entity.   This limitation shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation in actual possession and control as owner, tenant or otherwise of the improvement at the time the defective and unsafe condition of such improvement causes injury.   This limitation shall not apply to actions for wrongful death.   The provisions of this section shall only apply to causes of action accruing from and after January 1, 1986; and any cause of action accruing prior to January 1, 1986, shall be governed by Chapter 350, Laws of 1972.
MS Code § 15-1-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-43. Limitations applicable to actions founded on domestic judgments or decrees; renewal of judgment or decree; notice of renewal

 All actions founded on any judgment or decree rendered by any court of record in this state, shall be brought within seven (7) years next after the rendition of such judgment or decree, or last renewal of judgment or decree, whichever is later.   A judgment or decree can be renewed only if, at the time of renewal, the existing judgment or decree has not expired. A judgment or decree may be renewed by the filing with the clerk of the court that rendered such judgment or decree a Notice of Renewal of Judgment or Decree substantially in the following form:   NOTICE OF RENEWAL OF JUDGMENT OR DECREE   Notice is given of renewal of judgment that was rendered and filed in this action as follows:   Date that judgment was filed;   Case number of such judgment;   Judgment was taken against;   Judgment was taken in favor of;   Current holder of such judgment;   Current amount owing of such judgment; and   Certification that at the time of the filing of the notice the judgment remains valid and has not been satisfied or barred.   If applicable, that a Notice of Renewal of Judgment or Decree has been previously filed with the clerk of the court that rendered such judgment on:   The renewal of such judgment is effective as of the date of the filing of the Notice of Renewal with the clerk of the court that rendered such judgment. The renewal of judgment shall be treated in the same manner as the previously rendered judgment. The circuit clerk shall enroll the Notice of Renewal showing the date of the filing of the Notice of Renewal, and the lien of the renewal of such judgment continues from the date of the enrollment of the existing judgment. The right to renew a judgment in any other manner allowed by law instead of using the above Notice of Renewal remains unimpaired.   At the time of the filing of the Notice of Renewal of Judgment, the judgment creditor or his attorney shall make and file with the clerk of the court that rendered the judgment an affidavit setting forth the name and last-known post office address of the judgment debtor and the judgment creditor. Promptly upon the filing of the Notice of Renewal of Judgment, the clerk shall mail notice of the filing of the Notice of Renewal of Judgment to the judgment debtor at the address given and shall make a note of the mailing in the docket. The notice shall include the name and post office address of the judgment creditor and the judgment creditor's attorney, if any, in this state. In addition, the judgment creditor may mail a notice of the filing of the Notice of Renewal of Judgment to the judgment debtor and may file proof of mailing with the clerk. Lack of mailing notice of filing by the clerk shall not affect the validity of the renewal of judgment if proof of mailing by the judgment creditor has been filed.
MS Code § 15-1-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-45. Limitations applicable to actions founded on foreign judgments or decrees

 All actions founded on any judgment or decree rendered by any court of record without this state shall be brought within seven years after the rendition of such judgment or decree, and not after. However, if the person against whom such judgment or decree was or shall be rendered, was, or shall be at the time of the institution of the action, a resident of this state, such action, founded on such judgment or decree, shall be commenced within three years next after the rendition thereof, and not after.
MS Code § 15-1-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-47. Lien of judgments limited

 A judgment or decree rendered in any court held in this state shall not be a lien on the property of the defendant therein for a longer period than seven years from the rendition thereof, unless an action be brought thereon before the expiration of such time. However, the time during which the execution of a judgment or decree shall be stayed or enjoined by supersedeas, injunction or other process, shall not be computed as any part of the period of seven years.
MS Code § 15-1-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-49. Limitations applicable to actions not otherwise specifically provided for

  All actions for which no other period of limitation is prescribed shall be commenced within three (3) years next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.   In actions for which no other period of limitation is prescribed and which involve latent injury or disease, the cause of action does not accrue until the plaintiff has discovered, or by reasonable diligence should have discovered, the injury.   The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall apply to all pending and subsequently filed actions.
MS Code § 15-1-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-51. Limitations of suits by and against the state, counties and municipal corporations

 Statutes of limitation in civil cases shall not run against the state, or any subdivision or municipal corporation thereof, except that any judgment or decree rendered in favor of the state, or any subdivision or municipal corporation thereof, shall not be a lien on the property of the defendant therein for a longer period than seven (7) years from the date of filing notice of the lien, unless an action is brought before the expiration of such time or unless the state or such subdivision or municipal corporation refiles notice of the lien. There shall be no limit upon the number of times that the state, or any subdivision or municipal corporation thereof, may refile such notices of lien.   The statutes of limitation shall run in favor of the state, the counties, and municipal corporations beginning at the time when the plaintiff first had the right to demand payment of the officer or board authorized to allow or disallow the claim sued upon. The provisions of this section shall apply to all pending and subsequently filed notices of liens.
MS Code § 15-1-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-53. Effect of running of statute of limitations against executor, administrator, guardian, or other trustee, as against beneficiary

 When the legal title to property or a right in action is in an executor, administrator, guardian, or other trustee, the time during which any statute of limitations runs against such trustee shall be computed against the person beneficially interested in such property or right in action, although such person may be under disability and within the saving of any statute of limitations; and may be availed of in any suit or actions by such person.
MS Code § 15-1-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-55. Effect of death of party before bar is complete

 If a person entitled to bring any of the personal actions herein mentioned, or liable to any such action, shall die before the expiration of the time herein limited therefor, such action may be commenced by or against the executor or administrator of the deceased person, after the expiration of said time, and within one year after the death of such person.
MS Code § 15-1-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-57. Statute of limitations not to run when person prohibited to sue

 When any person shall be prohibited by law, or restrained or enjoined by the order, decree, or process of any court in this state from commencing or prosecuting any action or remedy, the time during which such person shall be so prohibited, enjoined or restrained, shall not be computed as any part of the period of time limited by this chapter for the commencement of such action.
MS Code § 15-1-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-59. Saving in favor of persons under disabilities

 If any person entitled to bring any of the personal actions mentioned shall, at the time at which the cause of action accrued, be under the disability of infancy or unsoundness of mind, he may bring the actions within the times in this chapter respectively limited, after his disability shall be removed as provided by law. However, the saving in favor of persons under disability of unsoundness of mind shall never extend longer than twenty-one (21) years.
MS Code § 15-1-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-63. Effect of absence from the state

 If, after any cause of action has accrued in this state, the person against whom it has accrued be absent from and reside out of the state, the time of his absence shall not be taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of the action, after he shall return.
MS Code § 15-1-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-65. Action barred in another jurisdiction barred here

 When a cause of action has accrued outside of this state, and by the laws of the place outside this state where such cause of action accrued, an action thereon cannot be maintained by reason of lapse of time, then no action thereon shall be maintained in this state; provided, however, that where such a cause of action has accrued in favor of a resident of this state, this state's law on the period of limitation shall apply.
MS Code § 15-1-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-67. Effect of fraudulent concealment of cause of action

 If a person liable to any personal action shall fraudulently conceal the cause of action from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto, the cause of action shall be deemed to have first accrued at, and not before, the time at which such fraud shall be, or with reasonable diligence might have been, first known or discovered.
MS Code § 15-1-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-69. Commencement of new action subsequent to abatement or defeat of original action

 If in any action, duly commenced within the time allowed, the writ shall be abated, or the action otherwise avoided or defeated, by the death of any party thereto, or for any matter of form, or if, after verdict for the plaintiff, the judgment shall be arrested, or if a judgment for the plaintiff shall be reversed on appeal, the plaintiff may commence a new action for the same cause, at any time within one year after the abatement or other determination of the original suit, or after reversal of the judgment therein, and his executor or administrator may, in case of the plaintiff's death, commence such new action, within the said one year.
MS Code § 15-1-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-71. Limitation of setoff

 All the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the case of any debt or demand on the contract, alleged by way of setoff on the part of a defendant. The time of limitation of such debt or demand shall be computed in like manner as if an action had been commenced therefor at the time when the plaintiff's action was commenced. The fact that a setoff is barred shall not preclude the defendant from using it as such if he held it against the debt sued on before it was barred.
MS Code § 15-1-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-73. New promise to be in writing; effect of new promise by one or more joint contractors as against non-promisors

 In actions founded upon any contract, an acknowledgment or promise shall not be evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take any case out of the operation of the provisions of this chapter or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise be made or contained by or in some writing signed by the party chargeable thereby. Where there shall be two or more joint contractors, one or more of them shall not lose the benefit of the provisions of this chapter so as to be chargeable, by reason only of an acknowledgment or promise made or signed by any other or others of them. In actions against joint contractors, if the plaintiff be barred as to one or more of the defendants but be entitled to recover against any other or others of them, by virtue of a new acknowledgment or promise, or otherwise, judgment shall be given for the plaintiff as to any of the defendants against whom he is entitled to recover, and for the other defendants against the plaintiff.
MS Code § 15-1-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-75. Bar of statute of limitations against one does not affect another jointly interested

 In all cases where the interests are joint, one shall not be barred because another jointly interested is, and the statute of limitations provided in this chapter shall be severally applied, and not jointly, to the right of actions, in whatever cause, pertaining to each of all the parties, though jointly interested.
MS Code § 15-1-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-77. Effect upon limitations of concurrent jurisdiction in courts of common law and of equity

 Whenever there be a concurrent jurisdiction in the courts of common law and in the courts of equity of any cause of action, the provisions of this chapter limiting a time for the commencement of a suit for such cause of action in a court of common law, shall apply to all suits to be brought for the same cause in a court of chancery.
MS Code § 15-1-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-79. Limitations inapplicable to suits on certain obligations of banks and moneyed corporations

 None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to suits brought to enforce payment of notes, bills, or evidences of debt issued by any bank or moneyed corporation.
MS Code § 15-1-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-81. Actions on nonnegotiable promissory notes

  An action to enforce the obligations of a party to pay a nonnegotiable promissory note payable at a definite time must be commenced within six (6) years after the due date or dates stated in the promissory note, or if a due date is accelerated, within six (6) years after the accelerated date.   If demand for payment is made to the maker of a nonnegotiable promissory note payable on demand, an action to enforce the obligation of a party to pay the promissory note must be commenced within six (6) years after the demand. If no demand for payment is made to the maker, an action to enforce the promissory note is barred if neither principal nor interest on the promissory note has been paid for a continuous period of ten (10) years.   For purposes of this section, a "nonnegotiable promissory note" is an unconditional written undertaking to pay absolutely and in any event a fixed amount of money signed by the person undertaking to pay the money that is not an "instrument" under Section 75-3-104(b). Nonnegotiable promissory notes for purposes of this section include, but are not limited to, promissory notes that: (a) bear a variable rate of interest or provide for interest by reference to information not contained in the promissory note; (b) provide for interest after default; (c) are nonrecourse to the person undertaking to pay the money; or (d) qualify as "instruments" under Section 75-9-102(a)(47).   This section shall not apply to negotiable promissory notes, drafts, checks, certificates of deposit or any other instrument or item for which Section 75-3-118 provides the applicable statute of limitations. Neither a lease nor a security agreement is a promissory note for purposes of this section. A promissory note is not investment property as defined in Section 75-9-102(a)(49), a letter of credit, or writings that evidence a right to payment arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card. It is the intention of this section that a "note," as defined in Section 75-3-104(e), and nonnegotiable promissory notes, as defined in this section, shall have the same statutes of limitations.   This section shall not apply to obligations arising from retail installment contracts. For purposes of this section, a "retail installment contract" is a contract for the sale of goods under which the buyer makes periodic payments and the seller retains a security interest in the goods. For the purposes of this section, "goods" have the same meaning as the definition of "goods" in Section 75-9-102(a)(44).   This section takes effect on July 1, 2012, and shall apply to all nonnegotiable promissory notes for which the statute of limitations in effect immediately prior to that date has not run. This section shall have no application to promissory notes for which the statute of limitations has run prior to July 1, 2012.