All other actions, 10 years
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case 171 N.C. App. 58 - Toomer v. Branch Banking and Trust Co. (2005)
Most recently applied in 257 N.C. App. 599 - Honeycutt v. Weaver (February 2018)
C.C.P., s. 37; Code, s. 158; Rev., s. 399; C.S., s. 445; 1951, c. 837, s. 3; 2019-245, s. 4.3.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, an action for relief not otherwise limited by this subchapter may not be commenced more than 10 years after the cause of action has accrued.
(b) A civil action for child sexual abuse is not subject to the limitation in this section.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.