Limitation Act 1623

(The Limitation of certain Personal Actions.) 　III. And be it further enacted, That all Actions of Trespass Quare clausum fregit, all Actions of Trespass, Detinue, Action sur Trover, and Replevin for taking away of Goods and Cattle, all Actions of Account, and upon the Case, other than such Accounts as concern the Trade of Merchandize between Merchant and Merchant, their Factors or Servants, all Actions of Debt grounded upon any Lending or Contract without Specialty; all Actions of Debt for Arrearges of Rent, and all Actions of Assault, Menace, Battery, Wounding and Imprisonment, or any of them which shall be sued or brought at any Timeafter the End of this present Session of Parliament, shall be commenced and sued within the Timeand Limitation hereafter expressed, and not after (that is to say) (2) the said Actions upon the Case(other than for Slander) and the said Actions for Account, and the said Actions for Trespass, Debt, Detinueand Replevin for Goods or Cattle, and the said Action of TrespassQuare clausum fregit , within three Yearsnext after the Endof this present Session of Parliament, or within six Years next after the Causeof such Actions or Suit, and not after; (3) and the said Actions of Trespass, of Assault, Battery, Wounding, Imprisonment or any of them, within one Year next after the End of this present Session of Parliament, or within four Years next after the Cause of such Actions or Suit, and not after; (4) and the said Actionsupon the Case for Words, within one Year after the End of this present Session of Parliament, or within two Years next alter the Words spoken, and not after.