California Code of Civil Procedure CHAPTER 4 - General Provisions as to the Time of Commencing Actions

• Section 350.
  An action is commenced, within the meaning of this Title, when the complaint is filed.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 351.
  If, when the cause of action accrues against a person, he is out of the State, the action may be commenced within the term herein...
• Section 352.
  (a) If a person entitled to bring an action, mentioned in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 335) is, at the time the cause of action accrued...
• Section 352.1.
  (a) If a person entitled to bring an action, mentioned in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 335), is, at the time the cause of action accrued,...
• Section 352.5.
  If, after a cause of action accrues against a person, that person comes under an order for restitution as a condition of probation with respect...
• Section 353.1.
  If a person entitled to bring an action or other proceeding, which action or other proceeding has not been filed or otherwise instituted, is represented...
• Section 354.
  When a person is, by reason of the existence of a state of war, under a disability to commence an action, the time of the...
• Section 354.3.
  (a) The following definitions govern the construction of this section:(1) “Entity” means any museum or gallery that displays, exhibits, or sells any article of historical, interpretive, scientific,...
• Section 354.4.
  (a) The following definitions govern the construction of this section:(1) “Armenian Genocide victim” means any person of Armenian or other ancestry living in the Ottoman Empire during...
• Section 354.45.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Armenian Genocide victim” means any person of Armenian or other ancestry living in the...
• Section 354.5.
  (a) The following definitions govern the construction of this section:(1) “Holocaust victim” means any person who was persecuted during the period of 1929 to 1945, inclusive, by...
• Section 354.6.
  (a) As used in this section:(1) “Second World War slave labor victim” means any person taken from a concentration camp or ghetto or diverted from transportation to...
• Section 354.7.
  (a) The following definitions govern the construction of this section:(1) “Bracero” means any person who participated in the labor importation program known as the Bracero program between...
• Section 354.8.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to Section 335.1, the following actions shall be commenced within 10 years:(1) An action for assault, battery, or...
• Section 355.
  If an action is commenced within the time prescribed therefor, and a judgment therein for the plaintiff be reversed on appeal other than on the...
• Section 356.
  When the commencement of an action is stayed by injunction or statutory prohibition, the time of the continuance of the injunction or prohibition is not...
• Section 357.
  No person can avail himself of a disability, unless it existed when his right of action accrued.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 358.
  When two or more disabilities coexist at the time the right of action accrues, the limitation does not attach until they are removed.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 359.
  This title does not affect actions against directors, shareholders, or members of a corporation, to recover a penalty or forfeiture imposed, or to enforce a...
• Section 359.5.
  If the obligations under a surety bond are conditioned upon performance of the principal, the expiration of the statute of limitations with respect to the...
• Section 360.
  No acknowledgment or promise is sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, by which to take the case out of the operation of this...
• Section 360.5.
  No waiver shall bar a defense to any action that the action was not commenced within the time limited by this title unless the waiver...
• Section 361.
  When a cause of action has arisen in another State, or in a foreign country, and by the laws thereof an action thereon cannot there...
• Section 362.
  This Title does not extend to actions already commenced, nor to cases where the time prescribed in any existing statute for acquiring a right or...
• Section 363.
  The word “action” as used in this Title is to be construed, whenever it is necessary so to do, as including a special proceeding of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018