When the commencement of an action is stayed by injunction or statutory prohibition, the time of the continuance of the injunction or prohibition is not computed as a part of the limitation time.
(Code 1852, §2497; Code 1867, §2921; Code 1876, §3247; Code 1886, §2635; Code 1896, §2820; Code 1907, §4859; Code 1923, §8973; Code 1940, T. 7, §45.)