(a) Except as provided by Sections 16.010, 16.0031, and 16.0045, a person must bring suit for trespass for injury to the estate or to the property of another, conversion of personal property, taking or detaining the personal property of another, personal injury, forcible entry and detainer, and forcible detainer not later than two years after the day the cause of action accrues. (b) A person must bring suit to set aside a sale of property seized under Subchapter E, Chapter 33, Tax Code, not later than one year after the date the property is sold.Īcts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. (a) A person must bring suit for malicious prosecution, libel, slander, or breach of promise of marriage not later than one year after the day the cause of action accrues. (d) A disability that arises after a limitations period starts does not suspend the running of the period.Īcts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. (c) A person may not tack one legal disability to another to extend a limitations period.
(b) If a person entitled to bring a personal action is under a legal disability when the cause of action accrues, the time of the disability is not included in a limitations period. (1) younger than 18 years of age, regardless of whether the person is married or (a) For the purposes of this subchapter, a person is under a legal disability if the person is: CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE CHAPTER 16.
