(1) An action upon a judgment or decree of any court of the United States, or of any state or territory within the United States; or
(2) An action upon a sealed instrument entered into before August 13, 1965,
shall be commenced within 10 years.
Known as the Uniform Conflict of Laws-Limitations Act
The act spans §§ 12–12 (52 sections).
Applied in 44 court decisions — leading case Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,408 Charles E. Williams v. James N. Sinclair, Dan R. Carlson and Frank Yazzolino v. James N. Sinclair (1976)
Most recently applied in 325 Or. App. 648 - Hathaway v. B & J Property Investments, Inc. (May 2023)
Amended by 1965 c.502 §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.
(1) An action upon a judgment or decree of any court of the United States, or of any state or territory within the United States; or
(2) An action upon a sealed instrument entered into before August 13, 1965,
shall be commenced within 10 years.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.