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Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5815 (2026)
Scope of limitations; legal and equitable; laches.
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REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961
Act 236 of 1961
600.5815 Scope of limitations; legal and equitable; laches.
Sec. 5815.
The prescribed period of limitations shall apply equally to all actions whether equitable or legal relief is sought. The equitable doctrine of laches shall also apply in actions where equitable relief is sought.
History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 36
cases (11 in the last 5 years), 1966–2025 · leading case: Lothian v. City of Detroit, 324 N.W.2d 9 (Mich. 1982).
Lothian v. City of Detroit, 324 N.W.2d 9 (Mich. 1982). “III On appeal, defendants contend (1) that the Court of Appeals reliance upon this Court's decision in Seguin v Madison, 328 Mich 600 ; 44 NW2d 150 (1950), in support of its conclusion that plaintiff's suit had been timely filed, was misplaced; (2) that *171 MCL 600.5815; MSA…”
Tenneco Inc. v. Amerisure Mut. Ins., 761 N.W.2d 846 (Mich. Ct. App. 2008). “MCL 600.5815 buttresses this analysis of Taxpayers.”
Romulus City Treasurer v. Wayne Cnty. Drain Comm'r, 322 N.W.2d 152 (Mich. 1982). “[7] Since the defendants, as well as plaintiffs, address the question of the timeliness of this action in terms of the statute of limitations and not laches, neither address whether MCL 600.5815; MSA 27A.5815 applies to the limitation that defendants assert to bar this claim.”
Terlecki v. Stewart, 754 N.W.2d 899 (Mich. Ct. App. 2008). “” MCL 600.5815. This Court has applied the six-year limitations period to the Attorney General’s “equitable action to restore wetlands that were altered in violation of a permit issued under Part 303 (Wetland Protection) of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act…”
Rowry v. Univ. of Michigan, 490 N.W.2d 305 (Mich. 1992). “" In defining the scope of the various limitation periods contained in the Revised Judicature Act, MCL 600.5815; MSA 27A.5815 provides: The prescribed period of limitations shall apply equally to all actions whether equitable or legal relief is sought.”
Michigan Educ. Employees Mut. Ins. v. Morris, 596 N.W.2d 142 (Mich. 1999). “The court, however, limited the amount of the reimbursement to the amount of overpayment Ms. Wooten received in the third and final year in which work loss benefits were paid by meemic.”
Attorney Gen. v. Harkins, 669 N.W.2d 296 (Mich. Ct. App. 2003). “However, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Taylor , the Legislature enacted MCL 600.5815, which provides that “[t]he prescribed period of limitations shall apply equally to all actions whether equitable or legal relief is sought .”
Palmer Park Square, LLC v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 878 F.3d 530 (6th Cir. 2017). “2d 39 , 50 (2016); accord Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5815 (“The prescribed period of limitations shall apply equally to all actions whether equitable or legal relief is sought.”
Lorimer Ex Rel. Est. of Lorimer v. Berrelez, 331 F. Supp. 2d 585 (E.D. Mich. 2004). “23, 1999); Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5801 (4); Mich. Comp.”
Carpenter v. Mumby, 273 N.W.2d 605 (Mich. Ct. App. 1978). “Whether measured from the date of the sale, see MCL 600.5827; MSA 27A.5827, or the death of the decedent, see MCL 600.”
Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Leach, 525 F. Supp. 1379 (E.D. Mich. 1981). “§ 600.5815) renders the equitable doctrine of laches applicable only to those actions in which equitable relief is sought.”
Eberhard v. Harper-Grace Hospitals, 445 N.W.2d 469 (Mich. Ct. App. 1989). “[MCL 600.5815; MSA 27A.5815.] We reject this argument for three reasons.”
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