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2011 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Chapter 205: LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS- 14 §751. Twenty years
- 14 §752. Six years
- 14 §752-A. Design professionals
- 14 §752-B. Ski areas
- 14 §752-C. Sexual acts towards minors
- 14 §752-D. Land surveyors
- 14 §752-E. Crime victims; profits from crime
- 14 §753. Two years
- 14 §753-A. Actions against attorneys (REPEALED)
- 14 §753-B. Actions against attorneys
- 14 §754. One year
- 14 §801. Rights of entry and action barred in 20 years
- 14 §802. Right begins to run
- 14 §803. Right deemed to accrue
- 14 §804. Entry for condition broken
- 14 §805. Accrual of right of entry
- 14 §806. Action by minister or sole corporation
- 14 §807. Minors and other disabled persons
- 14 §808. Death during period of disability
- 14 §809. Death of tenant in tail or remainderman before end of limitation
- 14 §810. Type of possession; need for enclosure
- 14 §810-A. Mistake of boundary line
- 14 §811. Failure of first action; effect on limitations
- 14 §812. Acquisition of rights-of-way and easements by adverse possession; notice to prevent
- 14 §812-A. Dedication of land in the unorganized territory to public use; notice to prevent
- 14 §812-B. Recording requirements
- 14 §813. Adverse obstruction on rights-of-way; interruption by notice
- 14 §814. Trespass on wild lands; notice to quit; record; private roads in unorganized territory
- 14 §815. Forty years' possession bars action for recovery of land
- 14 §816. Limitations of actions for uncultivated lands in incorporated places
- 14 §817. Limitation of actions for breach of covenants; vested interest in 6-year limitations period
- 14 §851. Actions against sheriff for escape; for misconduct
- 14 §852. Mutual and open accounts current
- 14 §853. Persons under disability may bring action when disability removed
- 14 §854. Actions for breach of promise to marry prohibited
- 14 §855. Commencement of new action after failure, defeat or reversal
- 14 §856. Death of either party before action commenced (REPEALED)
- 14 §857. Rights of alien enemies in time of war
- 14 §858. Limitation on actions for penalties
- 14 §859. Limitation extended in cases of fraud
- 14 §860. Renewal of promise in writing
- 14 §861. Judgment where action barred against some and not others
- 14 §862. When nonjoinder of defendants is pleaded
- 14 §863. Partial payment and indorsement
- 14 §864. Presumption of payment after 20 years
- 14 §865. Application of limitations to counterclaims
- 14 §866. Defendant out of State when action commenced; insolvency
- 14 §867. Foreign corporations covered by limitations
- 14 §868. Action to recover damages for land taken for public use
- 14 §869. Action barred when no administrator 6 years after death
- 14 §870. Judgment by perjury; action on case
- 14 §871. Public Works Contractors' Surety Bond Law of 1971
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