2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 1-49. Seven years.

§ 1‑49.  Seven years.

Within seven years an action –

(1)       Repealed by Session Laws 1961, c. 115, s. 1.

(2)       By a creditor of a deceased person against his personal or real representative, within seven years next after the qualification of the executor or administrator and his making the advertisement required by law for creditors of the deceased to present their claims, where no personal service of such notice in writing is made upon the creditor. A creditor thus barred of a recovery against the representative of any principal debtor is also barred of a recovery against any surety to the debt. (C.C.P., s. 32; Code, s. 153; Rev., s. 392; C.S., s. 438; 1961, c. 115, s. 1.)

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