Sections
25 entriesSection 350Defines commencement of an action, for purposes of the title, as the filing of the complaint. The action is therefore treated as…Section 351Extends the limitations period when a defendant is outside California: if the person is out of state when the claim accrues, the…Section 352Extends limitations periods for specified actions when the entitled person was a minor or lacked legal decision-making capacity when the claim accrued…Section 352.1Extends limitations periods for specified actions by excluding up to two years of imprisonment existing when the claim accrued. Exempts required public-entity…Section 352.5Extends the time to commence an action by excluding any period during which, after accrual, the liable person is subject to a…Section 353.1Extends an unfiled action or proceeding for six months after entry of an order placing the person’s attorney’s practice under court jurisdiction…Section 354Extends the period to commence an action by excluding any time during which a state of war creates a disability preventing the…Section 354.3Allows an owner, heir, or beneficiary to sue a qualifying museum or gallery in California superior court to recover Holocaust-era artwork taken…Section 354.4Allows a California-resident Armenian Genocide victim, heir, or beneficiary to pursue qualifying insurance claims involving policies purchased or effective in Europe or…Section 354.45Allows a California-resident Armenian Genocide victim, heir, or beneficiary to pursue claims against qualifying banks for deposited or looted assets in California…Section 354.5Allows a California-resident Holocaust victim, heir, or beneficiary to sue a qualifying insurer for proceeds of insurance purchased or effective in Europe…Section 354.6Allows Second World War slave or forced labor victims, or their heirs, to sue an entity or successor for compensation for unpaid…Section 354.7Allows a bracero, heir, or beneficiary to bring or continue a California action to recover unpaid savings-fund amounts withheld under the 1942–1950…Section 354.8Sets a 10-year period for specified assault, battery, wrongful-death, international-law property-taking, and insurance-benefit actions involving torture, genocide, war crimes, attempted extrajudicial killing,…Section 355Allows a new action to be commenced within one year after reversal when the plaintiff timely commenced the original action and obtained…Section 356Extends the time to commence an action by excluding any period during which commencement is stayed by an injunction or statutory prohibition.…Section 357Limits use of a legal disability to extend or affect an action’s limitation period to disabilities that already existed when the person’s…Section 358Extends the start of a limitations period when two or more disabilities coexist at the time the right of action accrues. The…Section 359Sets a three-year limitations period for actions against corporate directors, shareholders, or members to recover a legally imposed penalty or forfeiture or…Section 359.5Bars an action against a principal or surety under a performance-conditioned surety bond when the limitations period has expired on the principal’s…Section 360Requires a new or continuing contract acknowledgment or promise to be written and signed to avoid this title’s limitations rules, but treats…Section 360.5Requires a limitations-defense waiver to be written and signed, and limits each waiver generally to four years measured from the original deadline…Section 361Bars a California action on a cause arising in another state or foreign country when that jurisdiction’s law would already bar the…Section 362Limits this title so it does not apply to actions already commenced or to cases in which an existing statute’s period for…Section 363Defines action, when necessary for construing the title, to include a special proceeding of a civil nature. The definition expands that term…