Texas Civil Practice And Remedies Code Title 2, Chapter 16 - Limitations
SUBCHAPTER A LIMITATIONS OF PERSONAL ACTIONS
- Texas Section 16.001 - Effect Of Disability
(a) For the purposes of this subchapter, a person is under a legal disability if the person is: (1) younger than 18 years of age,...
- Texas Section 16.002 - One-year Limitations Period
(a) A person must bring suit for malicious prosecution, libel, slander, or breach of promise of marriage not later than one year after the day...
- Texas Section 16.003 - Two-year Limitations Period
(a) Except as provided by Sections 16.010, 16.0031, and 16.0045, a person must bring suit for trespass for injury to the estate or to the...
- Texas Section 16.0031 - Asbestos-related Or Silica-related Injuries
(a) In an action for personal injury or death resulting from an asbestos-related injury, as defined by Section 90.001, the cause of action accrues for...
- Texas Section 16.004 - Four-year Limitations Period
(a) A person must bring suit on the following actions not later than four years after the day the cause of action accrues: (1) specific...
- Texas Section 16.0045 - Limitations Period For Claims Arising From Certain Offenses
(a) A person must bring suit for personal injury not later than 15 years after the day the cause of action accrues if the injury...
- Texas Section 16.005 - Action For Closing Street Or Road
(a) A person must bring suit for any relief from the following acts not later than two years after the day the cause of action...
- Texas Section 16.006 - Carriers Of Property
(a) A carrier of property for compensation or hire must bring suit for the recovery of charges not later than three years after the day...
- Texas Section 16.007 - Return Of Execution
A person must bring suit against a sheriff or other officer or the surety of the sheriff or officer for failure to return an execution...
- Texas Section 16.008 - Architects, Engineers, Interior Designers, And Landscape Architects Furnishing Design, Planning, Or Inspection Of Construction Of Improvements
(a) A person must bring suit for damages for a claim listed in Subsection (b) against a registered or licensed architect, engineer, interior designer, or...
- Texas Section 16.009 - Persons Furnishing Construction Or Repair Of Improvements
(a) A claimant must bring suit for damages for a claim listed in Subsection (b) against a person who constructs or repairs an improvement to...
- Texas Section 16.010 - Misappropriation Of Trade Secrets
(a) A person must bring suit for misappropriation of trade secrets not later than three years after the misappropriation is discovered or by the exercise...
- Texas Section 16.011 - Surveyors
(a) A person must bring suit for damages arising from an injury or loss caused by an error in a survey conducted by a registered...
SUBCHAPTER B LIMITATIONS OF REAL PROPERTY ACTIONS
- Texas Section 16.012 - Products Liability
(a) In this section: (1) "Claimant," "seller," and "manufacturer" have the meanings assigned by Section 82.001. (2) "Products liability action" means any action against a...
- Texas Section 16.021 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Adverse possession" means an actual and visible appropriation of real property, commenced and continued under a claim of right that is...
- Texas Section 16.022 - Effect Of Disability
(a) For the purposes of this subchapter, a person is under a legal disability if the person is: (1) younger than 18 years of age,...
- Texas Section 16.023 - Tacking Of Successive Interests
To satisfy a limitations period, peaceable and adverse possession does not need to continue in the same person, but there must be privity of estate...
- Texas Section 16.024 - Adverse Possession: Three-year Limitations Period
A person must bring suit to recover real property held by another in peaceable and adverse possession under title or color of title not later...
- Texas Section 16.025 - Adverse Possession: Five-year Limitations Period
(a) A person must bring suit not later than five years after the day the cause of action accrues to recover real property held in...
- Texas Section 16.026 - Adverse Possession: 10-year Limitations Period
(a) A person must bring suit not later than 10 years after the day the cause of action accrues to recover real property held in...
- Texas Section 16.027 - Adverse Possession: 25-year Limitations Period Notwithstanding Disability
A person, regardless of whether the person is or has been under a legal disability, must bring suit not later than 25 years after the...
- Texas Section 16.028 - Adverse Possession With Recorded Instrument: 25-year Limitations Period
(a) A person, regardless of whether the person is or has been under a legal disability, may not maintain an action for the recovery of...
- Texas Section 16.029 - Evidence Of Title To Land By Limitations
(a) In a suit involving title to real property that is not claimed by this state, it is prima facie evidence that the title to...
- Texas Section 16.030 - Title Through Adverse Possession
(a) If an action for the recovery of real property is barred under this chapter, the person who holds the property in peaceable and adverse...
- Texas Section 16.031 - Enclosed Land
(a) A tract of land that is owned by one person and that is entirely surrounded by land owned, claimed, or fenced by another is...
- Texas Section 16.032 - Adjacent Land
Possession of land that belongs to another by a person owning or claiming 5,000 or more fenced acres that adjoin the land is not peaceable...
- Texas Section 16.033 - Technical Defects In Instrument
(a) A person with a right of action for the recovery of real property or an interest in real property conveyed by an instrument with...
- Texas Section 16.034 - Attorney's Fees
(a) In a suit for the possession of real property between a person claiming under record title to the property and one claiming by adverse...
- Texas Section 16.035 - Lien On Real Property
(a) A person must bring suit for the recovery of real property under a real property lien or the foreclosure of a real property lien...
- Texas Section 16.036 - Extension Of Real Property Lien
(a) The party or parties primarily liable for a debt or obligation secured by a real property lien, as that term is defined in Section...
- Texas Section 16.037 - Effect Of Extension Of Real Property Lien On Third Parties
An extension agreement is void as to a bona fide purchaser for value, a lienholder, or a lessee who deals with real property affected by...
SUBCHAPTER C RESIDUAL LIMITATIONS PERIOD
- Texas Section 16.038 - Rescission Or Waiver Of Accelerated Maturity Date
(a) If the maturity date of a series of notes or obligations or a note or obligation payable in installments is accelerated, and the accelerated...
SUBCHAPTER D MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 16.051 - Residual Limitations Period
Every action for which there is no express limitations period, except an action for the recovery of real property, must be brought not later than...
- Texas Section 16.061 - Rights Not Barred
(a) A right of action of this state or a political subdivision of the state, including a county, an incorporated city or town, a navigation...
- Texas Section 16.062 - Effect Of Death
(a) The death of a person against whom or in whose favor there may be a cause of action suspends the running of an applicable...
- Texas Section 16.063 - Temporary Absence From State
The absence from this state of a person against whom a cause of action may be maintained suspends the running of the applicable statute of...
- Texas Section 16.064 - Effect Of Lack Of Jurisdiction
(a) The period between the date of filing an action in a trial court and the date of a second filing of the same action...
- Texas Section 16.065 - Acknowledgment Of Claim
An acknowledgment of the justness of a claim that appears to be barred by limitations is not admissible in evidence to defeat the law of...
- Texas Section 16.066 - Action On Foreign Judgment
(a) An action on a foreign judgment is barred in this state if the action is barred under the laws of the jurisdiction where rendered....
- Texas Section 16.067 - Claim Incurred Prior To Arrival In This State
(a) A person may not bring an action to recover a claim against a person who has moved to this state if the claim is...
- Texas Section 16.068 - Amended And Supplemental Pleadings
If a filed pleading relates to a cause of action, cross action, counterclaim, or defense that is not subject to a plea of limitation when...
- Texas Section 16.069 - Counterclaim Or Cross Claim
(a) If a counterclaim or cross claim arises out of the same transaction or occurrence that is the basis of an action, a party to...
- Texas Section 16.070 - Contractual Limitations Period
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not enter a stipulation, contract, or agreement that purports to limit the time in which...
- Texas Section 16.071 - Notice Requirements
(a) A contract stipulation that requires a claimant to give notice of a claim for damages as a condition precedent to the right to sue...
- Texas Section 16.072 - Saturday, Sunday, Or Holiday
If the last day of a limitations period under any statute of limitations falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, the period for filing suit...
Last modified: September 28, 2016