Arkansas Code Title 16, Subtitle 5, Chapter 56, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 16-56-101 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-56-102 - Application of Limitations -- Setoffs.
  The provisions of this act shall be deemed and taken to apply to the case of any demand alleged by way of setoff on...
• § 16-56-103 - Actions Not Affected by Rev. Stat., Ch. 91.
  (a) The provisions of this act shall not extend to any action which is or shall be otherwise limited by any statute, but the...
• § 16-56-104 - Actions With Limitation of One Year.
  The following actions shall be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action shall accrue and not thereafter: (1) All special actions...
• § 16-56-105 - Actions With Limitation of Three Years.
  The following actions shall be commenced within three (3) years after the cause of action accrues: (1) All actions founded upon any contract, obligation,...
• § 16-56-106 - Recovery of Charges for Medical Services.
  (a) No action shall be brought to recover charges for medical services performed or provided prior to April 1, 1985, by a physician or...
• § 16-56-107 - Enforcement of Security Interest in Livestock.
  (a) No action to enforce a security interest in livestock shall be brought against a livestock auction market or selling agent who, in the...
• § 16-56-108 - Recovery of Statutory Penalties.
  All actions on penal statutes where the penalty, or any part thereof, goes to the state, or to any county or person suing for...
• § 16-56-109 - Actions Against Sheriffs, Coroners, and Other Officials.
  (a) All actions against sheriffs and coroners upon any liability incurred by them by doing any act in their official capacity or by the...
• § 16-56-110 - Sheriffs', Coroners', and Constables' Bonds.
  (a) Actions on the official bonds of sheriffs and coroners shall be commenced within four (4) years after the cause of action shall accrue,...
• § 16-56-111 - Notes and Instruments in Writing and Other Writings.
  (a) Actions to enforce written obligations, duties, or rights, except those to which § 4-4-111 is applicable, shall be commenced within five (5) years...
• § 16-56-112 - Design, Planning, Supervision, or Observation of Construction, Repair, Etc. -- Actions for Property Damage, Personal Injury, or Wrongful Death.
  (a) No action in contract, whether oral or written, sealed or unsealed, to recover damages caused by any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision,...
• § 16-56-113 - Bonds of Executors and Administrators.
  Actions on the bonds of executors and administrators shall be commenced within eight (8) years after the cause of action shall accrue, and not
• § 16-56-114 - Judgments and Decrees.
  Actions on all judgments and decrees shall be commenced within ten (10) years after cause of action shall accrue, and not afterward.
• § 16-56-115 - Limitation of Actions Not Otherwise Provided For.
  All actions not included in §§ 16-56-104, 16-56-105, 16-56-108, and 16-56-109 shall be commenced within five (5) years after the cause of action has
• § 16-56-116 - Persons Under Disabilities At Time of Accrual of Action.
  (a) If any person entitled to bring any action under any law of this state is under twenty-one (21) years of age or insane...
• § 16-56-117 - Death of Person Entitled to Sue or of a Party.
  (a) If any person entitled to bring any action specified in this act dies before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement...
• § 16-56-118 - Suspension of Limitations -- Persons in the Armed Forces.
  (a) The statutes of limitations in this state are suspended so far as those statutes affect the claim or cause of action of a...
• § 16-56-119 - Commencement of Suit Stayed by Injunction -- Effect.
  Whenever the commencement of any suit is stayed by an injunction of any court of equity, the time during which the injunction shall be...
• § 16-56-120 - Prevention of Commencement of Action by Party.
  If any person, by leaving the county, absconding, or concealing himself, or by any other improper act of his own, prevents the commencement of...
• § 16-56-121 - Prevention of Commencement of Action -- Foreign Debtors Absconding to This State.
  If any debtor shall fraudulently abscond from any other state, territory, or district to this state without the knowledge of his, her, or their...
• § 16-56-122 - Tolling Statute -- Verbal Promise or Acknowledgment Insufficient.
  No verbal promise or acknowledgment in any action founded on a simple contract shall be deemed sufficient evidence to take any case out of...
• § 16-56-123 - Tolling Statute -- Endorsement of Payment on Bond or Sealed Instrument Insufficient.
  No endorsement of any payment written upon any bond or any other sealed instrument by or on behalf of the party to whom the...
• § 16-56-124 - Tolling Statute -- Promise by Joint Contractor or Executor.
  When there are two (2) or more joint contractors or executors, no joint contractor or executor shall lose the benefit of this act by...
• § 16-56-125 - Actions Against Tortfeasors Whose Identity is Unknown.
  (a) For the purposes of tolling the statute of limitations, any person, firm, or corporation may file a complaint stating his or her cause...
• § 16-56-126 - Commencement of New Action or Filing Mandate After Nonsuit or Arrest or Reversal of Judgment.
  (a) (1) If any action is commenced within the time respectively prescribed in this act, in §§ 16-116-101 -- 16-116-107, in §§ 16-114-201 --...
• § 16-56-127 - Mutual Open Accounts -- Accrual of Cause of Action.
  In actions brought to recover any balance due upon a mutual open account current, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued...
• § 16-56-128 - Guaranteed Student Loans.
  There shall be no greater statute of limitations defense available to a borrower who has defaulted on a loan guaranteed by the Student Loan...
• § 16-56-129 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-56-130 - Civil Actions Based on Sexual Abuse.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other statute of limitations or any other provision of law that can be construed to reduce the statutory period set forth...

Last modified: November 15, 2016