California Code of Civil Procedure CHAPTER 3 - The Time of Commencing Actions Other Than for the Recovery of Real Property

• Section 335.
  The periods prescribed for the commencement of actions other than for the recovery of real property, are as follows:(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 335.1.
  Within two years: An action for assault, battery, or injury to, or for the death of, an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect...
• Section 336.
  Within five years:(a) An action for mesne profits of real property.(b) An action for violation of a restriction, as defined in Section 784 of the Civil Code....
• Section 336a.
  Within six years. 1. An action upon any bonds, notes or debentures issued by any corporation or pursuant to permit of the Commissioner of Corporations, or...
• Section 337.
  Within four years: 1. An action upon any contract, obligation or liability founded upon an instrument in writing, except as provided in Section 336a of this...
• Section 337a.
  The term “book account” means a detailed statement which constitutes the principal record of one or more transactions between a debtor and a creditor arising...
• Section 337.1.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no action shall be brought to recover damages from any person performing or furnishing the design, specifications, surveying,...
• Section 337.15.
  (a) No action may be brought to recover damages from any person, or the surety of a person, who develops real property or performs or furnishes...
• Section 337.2.
  Where a lease of real property is in writing, no action shall be brought under Section 1951.2 of the Civil Code more than four years...
• Section 337.5.
  Within 10 years:(a) An action upon any general obligation bonds or coupons, not secured in whole or in part by a lien on real property, issued...
• Section 337.6.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 337.5 of this code actions may be brought on bonds or coupons as set forth in subsection 2 of said...
• Section 338.
  Within three years:(a) An action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture.(b) An action for trespass upon or injury to real property.(c) (1) An...
• Section 338.1.
  An action for civil penalties or punitive damages authorized under Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100), Chapter 6.7 (commencing with Section 25280), Chapter 6.8 (commencing...
• Section 339.
  Within two years: 1. An action upon a contract, obligation or liability not founded upon an instrument of writing, except as provided in Section 2725 of...
• Section 339.5.
  Where a lease of real property is not in writing, no action shall be brought under Section 1951.2 of the Civil Code more than two...
• Section 340.
  Within one year:(a) An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture, if the action is given to an individual, or to an individual and...
• Section 340.1.
  (a) In an action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse, the time for commencement of the action shall be within...
• Section 340.15.
  (a) In any civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of domestic violence, the time for commencement of the action shall be the...
• Section 340.2.
  (a) In any civil action for injury or illness based upon exposure to asbestos, the time for the commencement of the action shall be the later...
• Section 340.3.
  (a) Unless a longer period is prescribed for a specific action, in any action for damages against a defendant based upon the defendant’s commission of a...
• Section 340.35.
  (a) This section shall apply if both of the following conditions are met:(1) A complaint, information, or indictment was filed in a criminal case initiated pursuant to...
• Section 340.4.
  An action by or on behalf of a minor for personal injuries sustained before or in the course of his or her birth must be...
• Section 340.5.
  In an action for injury or death against a health care provider based upon such person’s alleged professional negligence, the time for the commencement of...
• Section 340.6.
  (a) An action against an attorney for a wrongful act or omission, other than for actual fraud, arising in the performance of professional services shall be...
• Section 340.7.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 335.1, a civil action brought by, or on behalf of, a Dalkon Shield victim against the Dalkon Shield Claimants’ Trust, shall be brought...
• Section 340.8.
  (a) In any civil action for injury or illness based upon exposure to a hazardous material or toxic substance, the time for commencement of the action...
• Section 340.9.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or contract, any insurance claim for damages arising out of the Northridge earthquake of 1994 which is barred as...
• Section 340.10.a.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “terrorist victim” means any individual who died or was injured as a consequence of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September...
• Section 341.
  Within six months:An action against an officer, or officer de facto:1. To recover any goods, wares, merchandise, or other property, seized by any such officer in...
• Section 341.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any action or proceeding in which a county, city, city and county, school district, special district, or any other...
• Section 341a.
  All civil actions for the recovery or conversion of personal property, wearing apparel, trunks, valises or baggage alleged to have been left at a hotel,...
• Section 342.
  An action against a public entity upon a cause of action for which a claim is required to be presented in accordance with Chapter 1...
• Section 343.
  An action for relief not hereinbefore provided for must be commenced within four years after the cause of action shall have accrued.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 344.
  In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open, and current account, where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties,...
• Section 345.
  The limitations prescribed in this chapter apply to actions brought in the name of the state or county or for the benefit of the state...
• Section 346.
  An action to redeem a mortgage of real property, with or without an account of rents and profits, may be brought by the mortgagor or...
• Section 347.
  If there is more than one such mortgagor, or more than one person claiming under a mortgagor, some of whom are not entitled to maintain...
• Section 348.
  To actions brought to recover money or other property deposited with any bank, banker, trust company, building and loan association, or savings and loan society...
• Section 348.5.
  An action upon any bonds or coupons issued by the State of California shall have no limitation.(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 719, Sec. 8. (SB...
• Section 349¾.
  Within one hundred eighty days:(a) An action to enjoin, abate, or for damages on account of, an underground trespass, use or occupancy, by means of a...
• Section 349.1.
  The validity of any acts or proceedings taken under color of law for the formation, organization, incorporation, dissolution, consolidation, change of organization or reorganization of,...
• Section 349.2.
  Where any acts or proceedings are taken under color of law by or on behalf of any city, county, city and county, special district, public...
• Section 349.4.
  All acts and proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken under color of law for the formation, organization or incorporation of, or for any change in the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018