CHAP. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2920 of the Code of
Virginia in reference to limitations of personal actions.

Approved February 9, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-nine hundred and twenty of the Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2920. Limitations of personal actions fenerally.—Every
action to recover money which is founded upon an award, or
on any contract, other than a judgment or recognizance, shall be
brought within the following number of years next after the
right to bring the same shall have first accrued, that is to say:
If the case be upon an indemnifying bond taken under any stat-
ute, or upon a bond of an executor, administrator, guardian, cura-
tor, committee, sheriff or sergeant, deputy sheriff or sergeant,
clerk or deputy clerk, or any other fiduciary or public officer, or
upon any other contract by writing under seal within ten years;
if it be upon an award or be upon a contract in writing signed by
the party to be charged thereby, or by his agent, but not under
seal, within five years; and if it be upon any other contract,
within three years, unless it be an action by one partner against
his co-partner for a settlement of the partnership account, or
upon accounts concerning the trade of merchandise between
merchant and merchant, their factors, or servants, where the
action of account would lie, in either of which cases the action
may be brought until the expiration of five years from a cessa-
tion of the dealings in which they are interested together, but
not after: provided, that the right of action against the estate
of any person hereafter dying, or any such award or contract,
which shall have accrued at the time of his death, or the right
to prove any such claim against his estate in any suit or pro-
ceeding, shall not in any case continue longer than five years
from the qualification of his personal representative, or if the
right of action shall not have accrued at the time of the dece-
dent’s death, it shall not continue longer than five years after the
same shall have so accrued.