PRINTER'S NO. 2059
No. 1655 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. MELTON AND BARBER, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 29, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 27, 1713 (1 Sm. L. 76), entitled "An
2 act for limitation of actions," reducing certain age
3 requirements.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section V., act of March 27, 1713 (1 Sm. L. 76),
7 entitled "An act for limitation of actions," is amended to read:
8 V. Provided nevertheless, That if any person or persons, who
9 is or shall be entitled to any such action of trespass, detinue,
10 trover, replevin, actions of account, debt, actions for
11 trespass, for assault, menace, battery, wounding or
12 imprisonment, actions upon the case for words, be, or at the
13 time of any cause of such action given or accrued, fallen or
14 come, shall be, within the age of [twenty-one] eighteen years,
15 feme covert, non compos mentis, imprisoned, or beyond sea, that
16 then such person or persons shall be at liberty to bring the
17 same actions, so as they take the same within such times as are
18 hereby before limited, after their coming to or being of full
19 age, discoverture, of sound memory, at large, or returning into
1 this province, as other persons.
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