Within two years:
(1) An action for libel, slander, assault, assault and battery, or false imprisonment.
(2) An action upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the state.
RCW 4.16.100
Actions limited to two years.
Applied in 55 court decisions — leading case 112 Wash. 2d 193 - LaMon v. Butler (1989)
Most recently applied in Denise Reagan, V St. Elmo Newton, Iii, Md (March 2019)
Code 1881 s 29; 1877 p 8 s 29; 1869 p 9 s 29; 1854 p 363 s 5; RRS s 160.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.