Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (2026)
Limitations applicable to actions on accounts and unwritten contracts
✓ current as of July 2026
Except as otherwise provided in the Uniform Commercial Code, actions on an open account or account stated not acknowledged in writing, signed by the debtor, and on any unwritten contract, express or implied, shall be commenced within three (3) years next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after, except that an action based on an unwritten contract of employment shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, art 6 (10); 1857, ch. 57, art. 5; 1871, § 2151; 1880, § 2670; 1892 § 2739; 1906, § 3099; Hemingway's 1917, § 2463; 1930, § 2299; 1942, § 729; Laws, 1964, ch. 299; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 10-105; Laws, 1976, ch. 488, § 1, eff. 7/1/1976.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 84
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1974–2024 · leading case: Cmty. Care Ctr. of Aberdeen v. Mary Barrentine, 160 So. 3d 216 (Miss. 2015).
Cmty. Care Ctr. of Aberdeen v. Mary Barrentine, 160 So. 3d 216 (Miss. 2015). “See Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (Rev.2012). 4 . Knight v.”
Levens v. Campbell, 733 So. 2d 753 (Miss. 1999). “The trial court found Levens' complaint and amended complaint to be time barred pursuant to a one-year statute of limitations under Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 and § 15-1-35. In his opinion, the chancellor ruled that assuming Levens was employed by MHG, she was an "at will"…”
Hughes v. Collegedale Distributors, 355 So. 2d 79 (Miss. 1978). “" This pleading contained a plea in bar in which the court was requested to dismiss the declaration on the ground that the cause of action was barred by the provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated section 15-1-29 (1972). The circuit court overruled the plea in bar holding that…”
Williams v. Evans, 547 So. 2d 54 (Miss. 1989). “In order to take an action founded in contract out of the operation of Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29 , the following requirement must be met: 15-1-73.”
Walton v. Util. Prods., Inc., 424 F. Supp. 1145 (N.D. Miss. 1976). “§ 1981 are barred by the three-year period of limitations provided in Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (1972); (2) that all relief based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.”
Culpepper Enter. Inc. v. Joseph R. Parker, 270 So. 3d 116 (Miss. Ct. App. 2018). “The Culpepper defendants filed their answer on July 21, 2016, raising the one-year statute of limitations found in Mississippi Code Annotated section 15-1-29 (Rev. 2015) 3 as an affirmative defense.”
Fawer v. Evans, 627 So. 2d 829 (Miss. 1993). “The district court granted Evans’ summary judgment motion on the ground that the action was time barred since it was subject to the one-year statute of limitation period controlled by Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (Supp.1992) for actions based on an unwritten contract of employment…”
Trammell v. State, 622 So. 2d 1257 (Miss. 1993). “Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (1972); (2) The Plaintiff's claims are barred by the doctrine of res judicata; (3) The contracts provided by the Plaintiff state no basis for a cause of action against Defendants; and (4) Defendants are immune from Plaintiff's claims, if any, based on…”
Smith v. Antler Insanity, LLC, 58 F. Supp. 3d 716 (S.D. Miss. 2014). “Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (1976). Smith argues that the longer three-year statute of limitations for a written contract from MCA Section 15-1-49 should apply.”
Hickox by & Through Hickox v. Holleman, 502 So. 2d 626 (Miss. 1987). “The defendants on the other hand argue that we should consider other reasons urged by them in support of their motion for the directed verdict, namely: The action against the defendants was barred by Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29 , this State's three-year statute of limitations on…”
In Re Est. of Stewart, 732 So. 2d 255 (Miss. 1999). “Chancellor Clark found that the three (3) year statute of limitations found in Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (1972) [2] applied to the claims of Logan & Bise.”
James Brett Holmes v. Becky Turner, 188 So. 3d 1229 (Miss. Ct. App. 2015). “See Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (Rev.2012) (imposing a three-year statute of limita *1234 tions for unwritten implied contracts); see also Robert A.”
— Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-29(1) — 1 case
Corley v. Entergy Corp., 220 F.R.D. 478 (E.D. Tex. 2004).
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