Michigan Compiled Laws 236-1961-58 Chapter 58 Limitation Of Actions (600.5801...600.5869)

• Section 600.5801 Limitation On Actions; Time Periods; Defendant Claiming Title Under Deed, Court-ordered Sale, Tax Deed, Or Will; Other Cases.
  No person may bring or maintain any action for the recovery or possession of any lands or make any entry upon any lands unless,...
• Section 600.5803 Foreclosure Of Mortgages.
  No person shall bring or maintain any action or proceeding to foreclose a mortgage on real estate unless he commences the action or proceeding...
• Section 600.5805 Injuries To Persons Or Property; Period Of Limitations; “dating Relationship” Defined.
  (1) A person shall not bring or maintain an action to recover damages for injuries to persons or property unless, after the claim first...
• Section 600.5807 Damages For Breaches Of Contract; Specific Performance; Fiduciary Bonds; Deeds; Mortgages; Surety Bonds; Appeal Bonds; Public Obligations.
  No person may bring or maintain any action to recover damages or sums due for breach of contract, or to enforce the specific performance...
• Section 600.5809 Action To Enforce Noncontractual Money Obligations; Limitations.
  (1) A person shall not bring or maintain an action to enforce a noncontractual money obligation unless, after the claim first accrued to the...
• Section 600.5811 Common Carriers; Charges And Overcharges; Definitions.
  (1) All actions by common carriers for the recovery of all or any part of their charges arising out of the intrastate transportation of...
• Section 600.5813 Other Personal Actions.
  All other personal actions shall be commenced within the period of 6 years after the claims accrue and not afterwards unless a different period...
• Section 600.5815 Scope Of Limitations; Legal And Equitable; Laches.
  The prescribed period of limitations shall apply equally to all actions whether equitable or legal relief is sought. The equitable doctrine of laches shall...
• Section 600.5821 Recovery Of Land; Recovery Of Public Ground; Personal Actions; Maintenance, Care, And Treatment Of Persons In State Institutions.
  (1) Actions for the recovery of any land where the state is a party are not subject to the periods of limitations, or laches....
• Section 600.5823 Counterclaims.
  To the extent of the amount established as plaintiff's claim the periods of limitations prescribed in this chapter do not bar a claim made...
• Section 600.5825 Effect Of Limits Running In Favor Of Some Joint Obligors But Not All.
  (1) In actions commenced against 2 or more joint obligators, or joint executors or administrators of any contractor, if it is shown that the...
• Section 600.5827 Accrual Of Claim.
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, the period of limitations runs from the time the claim accrues. The claim accrues at the time provided in...
• Section 600.5829 Accrual Of Claim; Right Of Entry Or Recovery Of Possession Of Land.
  The right to make an entry on, and the claim to recover land accrue: (1) Whenever any person is disseised, his right of entry...
• Section 600.5831 Accrual Of Claim; Mutual And Open Account Current.
  In actions brought to recover the balance due upon a mutual and open account current, the claim accrues at the time of the last...
• Section 600.5833 Accrual Of Claim; Breach Of Warranty Of Quality Or Fitness.
  In actions for damages based on breach of a warranty of quality or fitness the claim accrues at the time the breach of the...
• Section 600.5834 Accrual Of Claim; Common Carriers; Charges; Overcharges.
  In actions brought by common carriers to recover for charges arising out of intrastate transportation and in actions brought against common carriers to recover...
• Section 600.5835 Accrual Of Claim; Life Insurance; Presumption Of Death.
  In actions on life insurance contracts where the claim is based on the 7-year presumption of death, the claim accrues at the end of...
• Section 600.5836 Accrual Of Claim; Installment Contracts.
  The claims on an installment contract accrue as each installment falls due. History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
• Section 600.5837 Accrual Of Claim; Alimony.
  The claims for alimony payments accrue as each payment falls due. History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
• Section 600.5838 Claim Based On Malpractice; Accrual; Commencement Of Action; Burden Of Proof; Limitations.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 5838a or 5838b, a claim based on the malpractice of a person who is, or holds himself...
• Section 600.5838a Claim Based On Medical Malpractice; Accrual; Definitions; Commencement Of Action; Burden Of Proof; Applicability Of Subsection (2); Limitations.
  (1) For purposes of this act, a claim based on the medical malpractice of a person or entity who is or who holds himself...
• Section 600.5838b Action For Legal Malpractice; Commencement; Limitation; Definitions.
  (1) An action for legal malpractice against an attorney-at-law or a law firm shall not be commenced after whichever of the following is earlier:...
• Section 600.5839 Period Of Limitations On Actions Against Licensed Architect, Professional Engineer, Contractor, Or Licensed Professional Surveyor; Definitions; Applicability.
  (1) A person shall not maintain an action to recover damages for injury to property, real or personal, or for bodily injury or wrongful...
• Section 600.5841 Accrual Of Claim; To Person Other Than Person Bringing Action.
  If the claim first accrues to an ancestor, predecessor, or grantor of the person who brings the action or makes the entry, or to...
• Section 600.5843 Accrual Of Claim; Regaining Possession Of Land; Subsequent Loss; Effect.
  If the person who has a right to make an entry on land or a claim for the possession of land regains possession of...
• Section 600.5851 Disabilities Of Infancy Or Insanity; Tacking Of Successive Disabilities Prohibited; Year Of Grace; Removing Disability Of Infancy; Claim Alleging Medical Malpractice Accruing To Person 8 Years Old Or Less Or 13 Years Old Or Less; Disability Of Imprisonment; “release From Imprisonment” Defined.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (7) and (8), if the person first entitled to make an entry or bring an action under...
• Section 600.5852 Death Before Period Of Limitations Has Run Or Within 30 Days Thereafter; Commencement Of Action; Death Or Legal Incapacitation Of Personal Representative; Limitation On Commencement Of Action.
  (1) If a person dies before the period of limitations has run or within 30 days after the period of limitations has run, an...
• Section 600.5853 Absence From State.
  If any person is outside of this state at the time any claim accrues against him the period of limitation shall only begin to...
• Section 600.5854 War; Inability To Prosecute; Period Of Limitation.
  If any person is unable to prosecute an action in the courts of this state because he is a citizen or subject of any...
• Section 600.5855 Fraudulent Concealment Of Claim Or Identity Of Person Liable; Discovery.
  If a person who is or may be liable for any claim fraudulently conceals the existence of the claim or the identity of any...
• Section 600.5856 Tolling Of Statute Of Limitations Or Repose.
  The statutes of limitations or repose are tolled in any of the following circumstances: (a) At the time the complaint is filed, if a...
• Section 600.5861 Cause Of Action Accruing Without State; Limitation On Commencement Of Action.
  An action based upon a cause of action accruing without this state shall not be commenced after the expiration of the statute of limitations...
• Section 600.5865 Endorsement Or Memorandum Of Payment; Evidence.
  No endorsement or memorandum of any payment, written or placed upon any promissory note, bill of exchange, or other writing, by or on behalf...
• Section 600.5866 Revival Of Barred Claim; Written Acknowledgment Of Obligor.
  Express or implied contracts which have been barred by the running of the period of limitation shall be revived by the acknowledgment or promise...
• Section 600.5867 Presumption As To Possession Of Land; Exception.
  In every action for the recovery or possession of real estate, the person establishing the legal title to the premises is presumed to have...
• Section 600.5868 Entry And Possession.
  No person shall be deemed to have been in possession of any lands, within the meaning of this chapter merely by reason of having...
• Section 600.5869 Rights Governed By Law Under Which Right Accrued.
  All actions and rights shall be governed and determined according to the law under which the right accrued, in respect to the limitations of...

Last modified: October 10, 2016