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Section 1Actions requiring commencement within twenty years
Section 2Contract actions; actions upon judgments or decrees of courts of record
Section 2ATort, contract to recover for personal injuries, and replevin actions
Section 2BTort actions arising from improvements to real property
Section 2CActions for damages, etc. for physical alteration or destruction of fine art
Section 2DActions to recover costs of asbestos related corrective actions
Section 2EActions against the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust
Section 3Misconduct or negligence of deputies; actions against sheriffs
Section 3AClaims against commonwealth
Section 4Certain tort or contract actions for malpractice, error or mistake
Section 4ABack wages, actions to recover
Section 4BHit and run accidents
Section 4CSexual abuse of minors
Section 4DCivil remedies for victims of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude; damages; time for actions; representation of victim's rights by others
Section 5Penalties and forfeitures
Section 5AConsumer protection actions
Section 5BCivil rights actions
Section 6Mutual and open account current
Section 7Minors and incapacitated persons
Section 8Citizens of enemy country; suspension of limitation
Section 9Nonresident defendant; suspension of limitation
Section 10Death of party; effect
Section 11Contracts or acts of fiduciaries
Section 12Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations
Section 13Acknowledgment or new promise; effect
Section 14Part payment; effect
Section 15Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; effect
Section 16Acknowledgment or new promise by joint contractor; judgment
Section 17Action not to be dismissed for failure to join barred party defendant
Section 18Actions by state; laws applicable
Section 19Special limitations
Section 19ACurrency; euro as commercially reasonable substitute and substantial equivalent
Section 20Presumption of satisfaction of judgment
Section 21Recovery of land
Section 22Accrual of right or title to land; limitation
Section 23 to 27Repealed, 1979, 402, Sec. 3
Section 28Possession of land; requisites
Section 29Estates tail; barring remainders and reversions
Section 30Estates tail; death of tenant; effect
Section 31Actions by commonwealth
Section 31ARight of entry for condition broken or possibility of reverter; procedure
Section 32Dismissal of action or reversal or vacation of judgment; commencement of new action
Section 33Obsolete mortgages
Section 34Extension of mortgage; acknowledgment that mortgage not satisfied, etc.
Section 35Mortgage defined; commencement of proceedings, prerequisites; application of Secs. 33 to 35
Section 36Application; computation