CHAPTER 589

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-24 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to limitation of time within which certain actions must be Hens
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Approved April 6, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

That § 8-24 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
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§ 8-24. Every action for personal injuries shall be brought within
two years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued.
Every personal action, for which no limitation is otherwise prescribed,
shall be brought within five years next after the right to bring the same
shall have accrued, if it be for a matter of such nature that in case a
party die it can be brought by or against his representative; and, if it
be for a matter not of such nature, shall be brought within one year next
after the right to bring the same shall have accrued. The amendment
extending the period within which an action for personal injuries may
be brought under this section to two years shall not apply to any cause
of action arising prior to July one, nineteen hundred fifty-four.