 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Horace Binney - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 678 pages
...warranted the conclusion drawn by the jury. ~ 1. The act of assembly declares, that the action shall be commenced, " within six years next after the cause of such " action, and not after." If six years elapse after the cause of action accrued, there can be no recovery, although... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 618 pages
...lapse of time may be countervailed by a disability to prosecute. must be commenced and sued witliin six years next after the cause of such action accrued and not after ; Per Beit CJ \ M. & P. 487. Account, trespass, debt, detinue and replevin are mentioned in the game... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Civil procedure - 1838 - 682 pages
...be commenced within six years from the time when such tithes became due. *Thc action of detinue must be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action. 21 J. 1, c. 16, s. 3. The action of trespass quart clausum fregit and trespass for the " taking away... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 816 pages
...concern the trade of merchandise, between merchant and merchant, their factors or agents, — shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action shall have accrued, and not after." There is no term or description in any of our statutes of limitation,... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 698 pages
...will serve to elucidate the general language of the text. 2 US 224. § 18. The following actions shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after: 1. All actions of debt founded upon any contract, obligation or liability, not under seal, excepting... | |
 | Edmund Robert Daniell - Equity pleading and procedure - 1846 - 856 pages
...actions for trespass, debt, detinue, replevin, &.C., and the action of trespass quare clausumfregit, were to be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after. This statute, although its provisions apply only to actions or suits at Law,... | |
 | Edmund Robert Daniell - Equity pleading and procedure - 1846 - 724 pages
...arrangement adopted by Lord Bedesdile is somewhat different. Vide Ld. Red. 198. quarr, dmisum fregit, were to be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after. This statute, although its provisions apply only to actions or suite at law,... | |
 | William Burge - Bail - 1847 - 626 pages
...trespass, detinue and replevin for goods or cattle, and all actions of trespass quare clausum frcgit, shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after ; and all actions of trespass, of assault, battery, wounding, imprisonment,... | |
 | Canada - Law - 1848 - 944 pages
...without specialty, shall be maintainable in or with regard to any commercial matter, unless such action be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action ; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it enacted, That no acknowledgment... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 714 pages
...Statute of Limitations requires all actions, on contract, to be comMartin vs. Broach and others. menced within six years next after the cause of such action...accordingly, a promise to pay a debt not extinguished, but to which the remedy is lost, is a valid promise, and may be enforced, on the ground of the pre-existing... | |
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All actions for which no other period of limitation is prescribed shall be commenced within six years next after the cause of such action. 
