Periods of limitation. NRS 11.200 Computation of time. NRS 11.202 Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Deficiencies resulting from willful misconduct; fraudulently concealed deficiencies. NRS 11.203 Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Known deficiencies. NRS 11.204 Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Latent deficiencies. NRS 11.205 Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Patent deficiencies. NRS 11.2055 Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Determination of date of substantial completion of improvement to real property. NRS 11.206 Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Limitation of actions not a defense in actions based on liability as innkeeper or for defect in product. NRS 11.207 Malpractice actions against attorneys and veterinarians. NRS 11.2075 Malpractice actions against accountants. NRS 11.208 Action by contractor against Department of Transportation upon contract for construction, reconstruction, improvement or maintenance of highway. NRS 11.209 Actions against principal contractors by employees of subcontractors for wages or benefits. NRS 11.210 Mutual open accounts; accrual of cause of action. NRS 11.215 Actions for damages for injury arising from sexual abuse of minor. NRS 11.220 Action for relief not otherwise provided for. NRS 11.250 Disabilities preventing running of statute. ACTIONS BY OR ON BEHALF OF THIS STATE NRS 11.255 Actions by or on behalf of this State. MISCELLANEOUS LIMITATIONS NRS 11.260 Action to recover estate sold by guardian. NRS 11.270 Action to recover estate sold by executor or administrator. NRS 11.275 Action against estate for which letters of administration have not been issued. NRS 11.280 Legal disability prevents running of statute. NRS 11.290 No limitation of action for deposit of money or property; exception. NRS 11.300 Absence from State suspends running of statute. NRS 11.310 Death of person entitled to bring action before limitation expires; death of person against whom an action may be brought. NRS 11.320 Statute suspended when person against whom cause of action exists dies out of State. NRS 11.330 Action by enemy alien; war suspends limitation. NRS 11.340 Reversal of judgment; new action to be brought within 1 year. NRS 11.350 Action stayed by injunction. NRS 11.360 Disability must exist when right of action accrued. NRS 11.370 Coexisting disabilities must be removed. NRS 11.380 Actions against directors or stockholders of corporations. NRS 11.390 Acknowledgment or new promise must be in writing; exception. RECOMMENCEMENT OF CERTAIN ACTIONS NRS 11.500 Recommencement of actions dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. _________ GENERAL PROVISIONS NRS 11.010 Commencement of civil actions. Civil actions can only be commenced within the periods prescribed in this chapter, after the cause of action shall have accrued, except where a different limitation is prescribed by statute. [1911 CPA § 4; RL § 4946; NCL § 8503] NRS 11.020 Effect of laws of limitation of other states or countries. When a cause of action has arisen in another state, or in a foreign country, and by the laws thereof an action thereon cannot there be maintained against a person by reason of the lapse of time, an action thereon shall not be maintained against him in this State, except in favor of a citizen thereof who has held the cause of action from the time it accrued. [1911 CPA § 5; RL § 4947; NCL § 8504] REAL PROPERTY NRS 11.030 When action cannot be brought by grantee from this State. No action can be brought for or in respect to real property by any person claiming under letters patent, or grants from this State, unless the same might have been commenced by the State as herein specified in case such patent had not been issued or grant made. [1911 CPA § 36; RL § 4948; NCL § 8505] NRS 11.040 When actions by State or its grantees are to be brought within 7 years. When letters patent or grants of real property issued or made by this state are declared void by the determination of a competent court, an action for the recovery of the property so conveyed may be brought, either by the State, or by any subsequent patentee or grantee of the property, his heirs or assigns, within 7 years after such determination, but not after that period. [1911 CPA § 7; RL § 4949; NCL § 8506] NRS 11.060 Action for recovery of mining claims: Occupation and possession; other applicable provisions. 1. No action for the recovery of mining claims, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appears that the plaintiff, or those through or from whom he claims, were seized or possessed of such mining claim, or were the owners thereof, according to the laws and customs of the district embracing the same, within 2 years before the commencement of such action. 2. Occupation and adverse possession of a mining claim shall consist in holding and working the same, in the usual and customary mode of holding and working similar claims in the vicinity thereof. 3. All of the provisions of this chapter which apply to other real estate, so far as applicable, shall be deemed to include and apply to mining claims; provided, (a) That in such application “2 years” shall be held to be the period intended whenever the term “5 years” is used; and (b) That when the terms “legal title” or “title” are used, they shall be held to include title acquired by location or occupation, according to the usages, laws and customs of the district embracing the claim. [1911 CPA § 9; RL § 4951; NCL § 8508] NRS 11.070 No cause of action effectual unless party or predecessor seized or possessed within 5 years. No cause of action or defense to an action, founded upon the title to real property, or to rents or to services out of the same, shall be effectual, unless it appears that the person prosecuting the action or making the defense, or under whose title the action is prosecuted or the defense is made, or the ancestor, predecessor, or grantor of such person, was seized or possessed of the premises in question within 5 years before the committing of the act in respect to which said action is prosecuted or defense made. [1911 CPA § 10; RL § 4952; NCL § 8509] NRS 11.080 Seisin within 5 years; when necessary in action for real property. No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof other than mining claims, shall be maintained, unless it appears that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor was seized or possessed of the premises in question, within 5 years before the commencement thereof. [1911 CPA § 11; RL § 4953; NCL § 8510] NRS 11.090 Peaceable entry; when not valid as claim. No peaceable entry upon real estate shall be deemed sufficient and valid as a claim, unless an action be commenced by the plaintiff for possession within 1 year from the making of such entry, or within 5 years from the time when the right to bring such action accrued. [1911 CPA § 12; RL § 4954; NCL § 8511]

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