Effect of payment, acknowledgment, or promise to pay
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 2014 UT App 251 - Griffin v. Cutler (2014)
Most recently applied in 2021 UT App 119 - Dale K. Barker Co PC CPA Profit Sharing v. Turner (November 2021)
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session; Amended by Chapter 123, 2008 General Session
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 for recovery of a debt may be brought within the applicable statute of limitations from the date:
(a) the debt arose;
(b) a written acknowledgment of the debt or a promise to pay is made by the debtor; or
(c) a payment is made on the debt by the debtor.
(2) If a right of action is barred by the provisions of any statute, it shall be unavailable either as a cause of action or ground for defense.
Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.