All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-35
Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts
Applied in 123 court decisions — leading case Bogard v. Cook (1978)
Most recently applied in Mayfield v. Butler Snow LLP (September 2018)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 57, art. 6 (6); 1857, ch. 57, art. 7; 1871, § 2152; 1880, § 2673; 1892, § 2742; 1906, § 3102; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2466; 1930, § 2302; 1942, § 732; …
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