516.320. Actions barred, only revived by written promise. - Missouri Statutes

Actions barred, only revived by written promise.

516.320. In actions founded on any contract, noacknowledgment or promise hereafter made shall be evidence of anew or continuing contract, whereby to take any case out of theoperation of the provisions of sections 516.100 to 516.370, ordeprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless suchacknowledgment or promise be made or contained by or in somewriting subscribed by the party chargeable thereby.

(RSMo 1939 § 1035)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 883; 1919 § 1338; 1909 § 1909

(2003) Statute of limitations applicable to legal malpractice claim is not subject to Kansas tolling statute during pendency of review of claim by Kansas professional malpractice screening panel. Eichenwald v. Small, 321 F.3d 733 (8th Cir.).