CHAPTER 657

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS

 

       Part I.  Personal Actions

Section

   657-1 Six years

 657-1.8 Civil action arising from sexual offenses;

         application; certificate of merit

   657-2 Mutual current account

   657-3 Counterclaim

 657-3.5 Relation back of amendments

   657-4 Two years; libel and slander

   657-5 Domestic judgments and decrees

 657-5.5 Judgments for support

   657-6 Four years; causes arising in foreign jurisdiction,

         etc.

   657-7 Damage to persons or property

 657-7.3 Medical torts; limitation of actions; time

 657-7.5 Third-party defendants, time in which plaintiff may

         amend

   657-8 Limitation of action for damages based on construction

         to improve real property

   657-9 Action barred in foreign jurisdiction

  657-10 Special limitations

  657-11 Recoveries authorized by federal statute

  657-12 Repealed

  657-13 Infancy, Insanity, imprisonment

  657-14 Disability to exist at accrual of action

  657-15 Two or more disabilities

  657-16, 17 Repealed

  657-18 Extension by absence from State

  657-19 Extension by injunction

  657-20 Extension by fraudulent concealment

  657-21 Extension by keeping defendant in ignorance

657-21.5 Extension by sentencing of criminal defendant

  657-22 When process not commencement

  657-23 Extension while criminal case is pending

  657-24 Periodic payments of damages

 

       Part II.  Real Actions

  657-31 Twenty years

657-31.5 Adverse possession

  657-32 How computed

  657-33 Action accrues when

657-33.5 Deregistered land

  657-34 Disabilities

  657-35 Extension of time by death

  657-36 Same

  657-37 Repealed

  657-38 Possession, interrupting statute

 

Case Notes

 

  The statutory scheme and legislative history of §386-8 indicated that the phrase "except as limited by [this] chapter" was not intended to restrict an employee's right to intervene in a lawsuit that was timely filed by his or her employer; thus, employee was not barred by the statute of limitations under §657-7 to intervene in plaintiff insurer's timely filed suit, and the circuit court erred in granting defendant's motion for summary judgment.  126 H. 406, 271 P.3d 1165 (2012).