Title 42, JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE

Except as otherwise provided or prescribed by law, a court upon notice to the parties may modify or rescind any order within 30 days after its entry, notwithstanding the prior termination of any term of court, if no appeal from such order has been taken or allowed. Cross Referenc…

(a) Short title of section.--This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Statute of Limitations on Foreign Claims Act." (b) General rule.--The period of limitation applicable to a claim accruing outside this Commonwealth shall be either that provided or prescribe…

(a) Notice prerequisite to action against government unit.-- (1) Within six months from the date that any injury was sustained or any cause of action accrued, any person who is about to commence any civil action or proceeding within this Commonwealth or elsewhere against a govern…

The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within one year: (1) An action for libel, slander or invasion of privacy. (2) An action upon a bond given as security by a party in any matter, except a bond given by a condemnor in an eminent domain proceeding. (3) An actio…

The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within two years: (1) An action for assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution or malicious abuse of process. (2) An action to recover damages for injuries to the person or for the death of an …

2013 Unconstitutionality. Act 152 of 2004 was declared unconstitutional. Commonwealth v. Neiman, 84 A.3d 603 (Pa. 2013). The unconstitutionality took effect March 17, 2014.

(a) General rule.--Except as provided for in subsection (b), the following actions and proceedings must be commenced within four years: (1) An action upon a contract, under seal or otherwise, for the sale, construction or furnishing of tangible personal property or fixtures. (2) …

The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within five years: (1) An action for revival of a judgment lien on real property. (2) An action for specific performance of a contract for sale of real property or for damages for noncompliance therewith. (3) An action to en…

(a) Eminent domain.-- (1) (i) If a condemnor has filed a declaration of taking, a petition for the appointment of viewers for the assessment of damages under 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain) must be filed within six years from the date on which the condemnor first made pay…

(a) Adverse possession.--Title to real property may be acquired after no less than 10 years of actual, continuous, exclusive, visible, notorious, distinct and hostile possession of the real property. (b) Contiguous lots.-- (1) Where an additional lot abuts and is contiguous to re…

(a) General rule.--Record owners, their heirs, successors and assigns shall have the right to seek any mesne profits in an action in ejectment filed in response to the notice served under section 5527.1 (relating to ten year limitation) or waive the right to such recovery. (b) Li…

The defendant in the ejectment action under section 5527.1 (relating to ten year limitation) shall have the right to recover such costs for maintenance, improvements, repairs, renovations, taxes or other such expenses to benefit the real property as the defendant can prove by a p…

Except as otherwise provided by section 17 (relating to periods of limitation) of the act of August 9, 1971 (P.L.286, No.74), known as the "Disposition of Abandoned and Unclaimed Property Act," an action for escheat, or for payment into the State Treasury without escheat, must be…

(a) Execution against personal property.--An execution against personal property must be issued within 20 years after the entry of the judgment upon which the execution is to be issued. (b) Instruments under seal.-- (1) Notwithstanding section 5525(7) (relating to four year limit…

(a) General rule.--The following actions and proceedings must be commenced within 21 years: (1) Except as provided in section 5527.1 (relating to ten year limitation), an action for the possession of real property. (2) An action for the payment of any ground rent, annuity or othe…

The following actions and proceedings may be commenced at any time notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter except section 5521 (relating to limitations on foreign claims): (1) An action against an attorney at law by or on behalf of a client to enforce any implied o…

(a) General rule.--If, when a cause of action accrues against a person, he is without this Commonwealth, the time within which the action or proceeding must be commenced shall be computed from the time he comes into or returns to this Commonwealth. If, after a cause of action has…

(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by statute, insanity or imprisonment does not extend the time limited by this subchapter for the commencement of a matter. (b) Infancy.-- (1) (i) If an individual entitled to bring a civil action is an unemancipated minor at the tim…

(a) Cause of action accruing in foreign country.--Where a cause of action, whether originally accrued in favor of a resident or nonresident of this Commonwealth, accrued in a foreign country with which the United States or any of its allies were then or subsequently at war, or te…

(a) Termination of prior matter.-- (1) If a civil action or proceeding is timely commenced and is terminated, a party, or his successor in interest, may, notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, commence a new action or proceeding upon the same cause of action with…

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a civil action or proceeding brought against any person lawfully performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or construction of any improvement to real property must be commenc…

All actions to recover any or all damages against any person engaged in the practice of land surveying occurring as the result of any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be commenced within 12 years from the time the services are performed. Any such action…

(a) General rule.--All actions to recover any or all damages against any person engaged in the practice of landscape architecture occurring as the result of any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be commenced within 12 years from the time the services are…

(a) General rule.--Except as provided under subsection (b), an action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser arising out of the appraiser's real estate appraisal activity shall be brought within five years after the date the appraisal was conducted. (b) Exception.--An…

A prosecution for the following offenses may be commenced at any time: (1) Murder. (2) Voluntary manslaughter. (3) Conspiracy to commit murder or solicitation to commit murder if a murder results from the conspiracy or solicitation. (4) Any felony alleged to have been perpetrated…

(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a prosecution for an offense must be commenced within two years after it is committed. (b) Major offenses.--A prosecution for any of the following offenses must be commenced within five years after it is committe…

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c), proceedings for summary offenses under Title 75 (relating to vehicles) must be commenced within 30 days after the commission of the alleged offense or within 30 days after the discovery of the commission of the offen…

Except as provided by section 5553(e) (relating to disposition of proceedings within two years), the period of limitation does not run during any time when: (1) the accused is continuously absent from this Commonwealth or has no reasonably ascertainable place of abode or work wit…

(a) General rule.--The time for filing an appeal, a petition for allowance of appeal, a petition for permission to appeal or a petition for review of a quasi-judicial order, in the Supreme Court, the Superior Court or the Commonwealth Court shall be governed by general rules. No …

(a) Applicability; court of common pleas.-- (1) This section shall apply to any appeal raising questions relating to an alleged defect in the process of or procedure for enactment or adoption of any ordinance, resolution, map or similar action of a political subdivision. (2) An a…

The date of service of an order of a government unit, which shall be the date of mailing if service is by mail, shall be deemed to be the date of entry of the order for the purposes of this subchapter. The date of entry of an order of a court or magisterial district judge may be …

If an application for rehearing or reconsideration of an order is made to a tribunal the effect thereof on the time for appeal from such order shall be governed by general rules adopted pursuant to section 1722(a) (relating to adoption of administrative and procedural rules). (Ap…

If an application is made to a tribunal within 30 days after the entry of an interlocutory order not appealable as a matter of right for an amendment of such order to set forth expressly the statement specified in section 702(b) (relating to interlocutory appeals by permission), …