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Limitation of certain Actions.
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XX. All Actions for Rent upon an Indenture of Demise, all Actions upon any Bond or other Specialty, or upon any Judgment, Statute Staple, Statute Merchant, or Recognizance, shall be commenced and sued within Twenty Years after the Cause of such Actions or Suits, or the Recovery of such Judgment, but not after; all Actions grounded upon any Lending or Contract, expressed or implied, without Specialty, or upon any Award, where the Submission is not by Specialty, or for any Money levied on Fieri facias; all Actions of Account or for not accounting, other than for such Accounts as concern the Trade of Merchandise between Merchant and Merchant, their Factors or Servants; all Actions for direct Injuries to Real or Personal Property; Actions for the taking away, Detention, or Conversion of Property, Goods, and Chattels; Actions for Libel, malicious Prosecution and Arrest, Seduction, Criminal Conversation; and Actions for all other Causes which would heretofore have been brought in the Form of Action called Trespass on the Case, except as herein-after excepted, shall be commenced and sued within Six Years after the Cause of such Actions, but not after; and all Actions for Assault, Menace, Battery, Wounding, and Imprisonment shall be commenced and sued within Four Years after the Cause of such Actions, but not after; and all Actions for Words, and for Penalties, Damages, or Sums of Money given to the Party grieved, by any Statute now or hereafter to be in force, shall be commenced and sued within Two Years after the Words spoken or the Cause of such Action or Suit, but not after; and with respect to every Cause of Action not herein specifically provided for, being the Subject Matter of a Personal Action, such Actions in respect thereof shall be brought within the same Period of Limitation now applicable thereto, notwithstanding that such Cause of Action may be described or expressed in such Statutes by reference to any particular Form of Action: Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall alter the Period of Limitation of any Action given by any Statute where the Time for bringing such Action is or shall be by any Statute specially limited.
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