[1] Promissory note not negotiable.
[2] Justice Court. Court of Record, 20 years.
[3] Judgment may be kept alive by issuing execution every five years.
[4] May be revived by proof of non-payment.
[5] If judgment is from any other state, 10 years.
[6] "Where the statute of limitations of another State or government has created a bar to an action upon a cause accruing therein, while the party to be charged was a resident in such State or under such government, the bar is equally effectual in this State." (Code (M. & V.) Sec. 3481.)
[7] "All actions for debt upon any recognizance, shall be commenced within twenty years after the cause of action arose."
[8] "Surgeon's, physician's and dentist's accounts dating from the time the services or medicine is supplied."
This table is as near complete as we are able to make it at this time. The laws are changed frequently. This is accurate enough to enable any physician to look over his books and find what per cent. of his accounts have outlawed by his failure to enforce payment.
Remember that a payment, however small it may be, will revive an account, even after it has become outlawed. Hence the advisability of getting small payments at every opportunity. These payments should be less than one year apart, as some States do not consider payments made over one year apart.