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§ 15-1-35. Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts.

All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, art. 6 (6); 1857, ch. 57, art. 7; 1871, § 2152; 1880, § 2673; 1892, § 2742; 1906, § 3102; Hemingway's 1917, § 2466; 1930, § 2302; 1942, § 732; Laws, 1983, ch. 394, eff from and after July 1, 1983.

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§ 15-1-35. Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts.

All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, art. 6 (6); 1857, ch. 57, art. 7; 1871, § 2152; 1880, § 2673; 1892, § 2742; 1906, § 3102; Hemingway's 1917, § 2466; 1930, § 2302; 1942, § 732; Laws, 1983, ch. 394, eff from and after July 1, 1983.

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§ 15-1-35. Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts.

All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, art. 6 (6); 1857, ch. 57, art. 7; 1871, § 2152; 1880, § 2673; 1892, § 2742; 1906, § 3102; Hemingway's 1917, § 2466; 1930, § 2302; 1942, § 732; Laws, 1983, ch. 394, eff from and after July 1, 1983.