17. No entry or action shall be made or brought by any person who, at the time at which his right to make an entry, or bring an action to recover any land shall have first accrued, shall be under any of the disabilities hereinbefore mentioned, or by any person claiming through him, but within forty years next after the time at which such right shall have first accrued, although the person under disability at such time may have remained under one or more of such disabilities during the whole of such forty years, or although the term of ten years from the date at which he shall have ceased to be under any such disability, or have died, shall not have expired.

18. When any person shall be under any of the disabilities hereinbefore mentioned at the time at which his right to make an entry, or bring an action to recover any land, shall have first accrued, and shall die without having ceased to be under any such disability, no time to make an entry, or to bring an action to recover such land beyond the said period of twenty years next after the right of such person to make such entry, or to bring such action, shall have first accrued, or the said period of ten years next after the time at which such person shall have died, shall be allowed by reason of any disability of any other person.

19. No part of the British North American Provinces, nor of the United States of America, shall be deemed to be beyond seas within the meaning of this Chapter.

20. When the right of any person to make an entry, or bring an action to recover any land to which he may have been entitled, for an estate or interest in possession, shall have been barred by the determination of the period herein before limited, which shall be applicable in such case, and such person shall at any time during the same period have been entitled to any other estate, interest, right, or possibility in reversion, remainder, or otherwise, in or to the same land, no entry or action shall be made or brought by such person, or any claimant through him, to recover such land in respect of such other estate, interest, right, or possibility, unless in the meantime such land shall have been recovered by some person entitled to an estate, interest, or right, which shall have been limited or taken effect after or in defeasance of such estate or interest in possession.

21. No person claiming any land in equity shall bring any suit to recover the same but within the period during which by virtue of the provisions hereinbefore contained, he might have made an entry, or brought an action to recover the same respectively, if he had been entitled at law to such estates, interest, or right, in or to the same as he shall claim therein in equity.

22. When any land shall be vested in a trustee upon any express trust, the right of the cestuique trust, or any person claiming through him, to bring a suit against the trustee, or any person claiming through him, to recover such land, shall be deemed to have first accrued according to the meaning of this Chapter, at and not before the time at which such land shall have been conveyed to a purchaser for a valuable consideration, and shall then be deemed to have accrued only as against such purchaser, and any person claiming through him.

23. In every case of a concealed fraud, the right of any person to bring a suit in equity for the recovery of any land of which he, or any person through whom he claims, may have been deprived by such fraud, shall be deemed to have first accrued at and not before the time at which such fraud shall, or with reasonable diligence might have been first known or discovered; but nothing in this Section shall enable any owner of lands to have a suit in equity for the recovery thereof, or for setting aside any conveyance of such lands, on account of fraud against any bona fide purchaser for valuable consideration, who has not assisted in the commission of such fraud, and who at the time that he made the purchase did not know, and had no reason to believe that any such fraud had been committed.

24. Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to interfere with any rule or jurisdiction of a Court of Equity in refusing relief on the ground of acquiescence, or otherwise, to any person whose right to bring a suit may not be barred by virtue of this Chapter.

25. When a mortgagee shall have obtained the possession of receipt of the profits of any land comprised in his mortgage, the mortgagor, or any person claiming through him, shall not bring a suit to redeem the mortgage but within twenty years next after the time at which the mortgagee obtained such possession

or receipt, unless in the meantime an acknowledgment in writing, signed by the mortgagee, or the person claiming through him, of the title of the mortgagor, or of his right of redemption, shall have been given to him, his agent, or some person claiming his estate, and in such case no such suit shall be brought but within twenty years next after the time at which such acknowledgment, or the last of such acknowledgments, if more than one was given; and when there shall be more than one mortgagor, or more than one person claiming through the mortgagor or mortgagors, such acknowledgment, if given to any of such mortgagors or persons, or his or their agent, shall be as effectual as if the same had been given to all such mortgagors or persons; but where there shall be more than one mortgagee, or more than one person claiming the estate or interest of the mortgagee or mortgagees, such acknowledgment signed by one or more of such mortgagees or persons, shall be effectual only as against the party or parties signing as aforesaid, and the person or persons claiming any part of the mortgage money or land by, from, or under him or them, and any person or persons entitled to any estate or interest, to take effect after or in defeasance of his or their estate or interest, and shall not operate to give to the mortgagor or mortgagors a right to redeem the mortgage as against the person entitled to any other undivided or divided part of the money or land; and where such of the mortgagees or persons aforesaid as shall have given such acknowledgment, shall be entitled to a divided part of the land comprised in the mortgage, or some estate or interest therein, and not to any ascertained part of the mortgage money, the mortgagor or mortgagors shall be entitled to redeem the same divided part of the land, on payment, with interest, of the part of the mortgage money which shall bear the same proportion to the whole of the mortgage money as the value of such divided part of the land shall bear to the value of the whole land comprised in the mortgage.

26. At the determination of the period limited by this Chapter to any person for making an entry or bringing an action or suit, the right and title of such person to the land for the recovery whereof such entry, action, or suit respectively might have been made or brought within such period, shall be extinguished.

27. The receipt of the rent payable by any tenant from year to year, or other lessee, shall, as against such lessee, or any person claiming under him (but subject to the lease), be deemed to be the receipt of the profits of the land for the purposes of this Chapter.

28. No writ of right, or writ in nature of a writ of right, and no other action, real or mixed, except a writ of right of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, or an ejectment, shall be hereafter brought.

29. No action, or suit, or other proceedings, shall be brought to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment, or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land, at law or in equity, or any legacy, but within twenty years next after a present right to receive the same shall have accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for or release of the same, unless in the meantime some part of the principal money, or some interest thereon, shall have been paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing, signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable, or his agent, to the person entitled thereto, or his agent; and in such case no such action, or suit, or proceeding, shall be brought but within twenty years after such payment or acknowledgment, or the last of such payments or acknowledgments, if more than one were given.

30. It shall and may be lawful for any person entitled to, or claiming under any mortgage of land, to make an entry or bring an action at law, or suit in equity, to recover such land at any time within twenty years next after the last payment of any part of the principal money or interest secured by such mortgage, such payment being made within twenty years after the right of entry first accrued, although more than twenty years may have elapsed since the time at which the right to make such entry or bring such action or suit in equity shall have first accrued, anything in this Chapter to the contrary notwithstanding; this Section shall not affect the rights of litigants in suits now pending.

31. No arrears of dower, nor any damages on account of such arrears, shall be recovered or obtained by any action or suit for a longer period than six years next before the commencement of such action or suit.

1. No action or scire facias upon any judgment, recognizance, bond, or other specialty, shall be brought but within twenty years after the cause of action.

2. No action for any sum of money given to the party aggrieved by any Act or Statute, or for any penalty, shall be brought but within two years after the cause of action, unless the time is otherwise limited by the Statute.

3. No action for assault, battery, wounding, imprisonment, or for words, shall be commenced but within two years after the cause of action.

4. No other action shall be commenced but within six years after the cause of action.

5. No acknowledgment or promise shall be evidence of a new or continuing contract, or liability whereby to take any case out of the operation of the provisions of this Chapter, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise be in writing, signed by the party chargeable thereby, but a payment made on account of any such debt shall have the effect of such acknowledgment or promise.

6. No person jointly contracting, or liable, or his representatives, shall be answerable for or by reason of any payment, acknowledgment, or promise of his co-contractor, or debtor, or his representatives.

7. In actions against persons jointly contracting, or liable, or their representatives, the plaintiff may recover against one of the parties, though barred by the provisions of this Chapter as to the other.

8. If in any action on a contract the defendant plead in abatement that any other person ought to have been jointly