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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt:... of the State Three Years.--Actions against sheriffs, coroners or constables on account of their official acts, and for the penalty or forfeiture of a statute, except as above limited. Six Years.--Actions upon a contract, liability or obligation, except on contracts under seal; upon a liability created by statute other than a penalty or forfeiture; for trespass upon real property; for taking, detaining or injuring goods or chattels, or for the specific recovery thereof; for criminal conversation or any other injury to the person or rights of another not otherwise provided for herein; and for relief on the ground of fraud in cases heretofore solely cognizable by the Court of Chancery; the statute commencing to run upon the discovery of the fraud. Twenty Years.--Actions for the recovery of real estate; upon sealed instruments and judgments of courts of record. Any other action for relief must be brought within ten years from the time the cause of action arose. Part payment, or a written acknowledgment or promise to pay, revives the running of the statute. Mareied "women.--The property, real and personal, owned by any female at the time of her marriage, or acquired thereafter by inheritance, gift, grant, devise or bequest, from any person other than her husband, or by the trade, business, labor or services carried on or performed on her sole account, and the rents and profits thereof, shall be and remain her sole and separate property the same as if she was a single female, and shall not be liable to the disposal of her husband or liable for his debts; and she may bargain, sell, assign and transfer her separate property, or execute any contract in relation thereto, and carry on any trade or business, and perform any labor or services, on her sole and sepa...