Jones v. Sugar

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LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS

Fraudulent Concealment

“All actions of account, actions of assumpsit, or on the case, except as hereinafter provided,... shall be commenced, sued or issued within three years from the time the cause of action accrued____” Code, Art. 57, § 1. An exception is provided in § 14: “In all actions where a party has a cause of action of which he has been kept in ignorance by the fraud of the adverse party, the right to bring suit shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which such fraud shall or with ordinary diligence might have been known or discovered.”

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