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Civil Practice and Remedies Code 16.003 on 2/19/2015

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Sec. 16.003.  TWO-YEAR LIMITATIONS PERIOD.  (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 not later than two years after the day the cause of action accrues in an action for injury resulting in death.  The cause of action accrues on the death of the injured person.


Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.  Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 739, Sec. 2, eff. June 15, 1995;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 26, Sec. 2, eff. May 1, 1997.
Amended by: 
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 97 (S.B. 15), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2005.