Statute:

Death of claimant or person liable; cause of action accruing after death and before grant of letters

ยง 210. Death of claimant or person liable; cause of action accruing
after death and before grant of letters. (a) Death of claimant. Where a
person entitled to commence an action dies before the expiration of the
time within which the action must be commenced and the cause of action
survives, an action may be commenced by his representative within one
year after his death.

(b) Death of person liable. The period of eighteen months after the
death, within or without the state, of a person against whom a cause of
action exists is not a part of the time within which the action must be
commenced against his executor or administrator.

(c) Cause of action accruing after death and before grant of letters.
In an action by an executor or administrator to recover personal
property wrongfully taken after the death and before the issuance of
letters, or to recover damages for taking, detaining or injuring
personal property within that period, the time within which the action
must be commenced shall be computed from the time the letters are issued
or from three years after the death, whichever event first occurs. Any
distributee, next of kin, legatee or creditor who was under a disability
prescribed in section 208 at the time the cause of action accrued, may,
within two years after the disability ceases, commence an action to
recover such damages or the value of such property as he would have
received upon a final distribution of the estate if an action had been
timely commenced by the executor or administrator.

CVP 210 2014-09-22

Sections:

Article 2: LIMITATIONS OF TIME
Section 201 Application of article
Section 202 Cause of action accruing without the state
Section 203 Method of computing periods of limitation generally
Section 204 Stay of commencement of action; demand for arbitration
Section 205 Termination of action
Section 206 Computing periods of limitation in particular actions
Section 207 Defendant's absence from state or residence under false name
Section 208 Infancy, insanity
Section 209 War
Section 210 Death of claimant or person liable; cause of action accruing after death and before grant of letters
Section 211 Actions to be commenced within twenty years
Section 212 Actions to be commenced within ten years
Section 213 Actions to be commenced within six years: where not otherwise provided for; on contract; on sealed instrument;...
Section 213-A Actions to be commenced within four years; residential rent overcharge
Section 213-B Action by a victim of a criminal offense
Section 213-C Action by victim of conduct constituting certain sexual offenses
Section 214 Actions to be commenced within three years: for non-payment of money collected on execution; for penalty created by statute;...
Section 214-A Action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice to be commenced within two years and six months; exceptions
Section 214-B Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to phenoxy herbicides
Section 214-C Certain actions to be commenced within three years of discovery
Section 214-D Limitations on certain actions against licensed engineers and architects
Section 214-E Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by the infusion of such blood products which result in the contraction of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or AIDS
Section 215 Actions to be commenced within one year: against sheriff, coroner or constable; for escape of prisoner; for assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel or slander;..
Section 216 Abbreviation of period to one year after notice
Section 217 Proceeding against body or officer; actions complaining about conduct that would constitute a union's breach of its duty of fair representation; four months
Section 217-A Actions to be commenced within one year and ninety days
Section 218 Transitional provisions

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