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§ 5528. Fifteen year limitation.
Except as otherwise provided by section 17 (relating to periods of limitation) of
the act of August 9, 1971 (P.L.286, No.74), known as the "Disposition of Abandoned
and Unclaimed Property Act," an action for escheat, or for payment into the State
Treasury without escheat, must be commenced within 15 years after the property sought
in such action shall have first escheated or become escheatable or payable into the
State Treasury under any statute.
References in Text. The act of August 9, 1971, P.L.286, No.74, known as the Disposition of Abandoned and
Unclaimed Property Act, referred to in this section, was repealed by the act of December
9, 1982, P.L.1057, No.248. The subject matter is now contained in Article XIII.1 of
the act of April 9, 1929, P.L.343, No.176, known as The Fiscal Code.
Notes of Decisions
Commonwealth v. Allen, 59 A.3d 677 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2012).
“” 42 Pa. C.S. § 5528. .Before the Court is the Commonwealth’s Motion for Modification of the Record Pursuant to Pa.”
Vargo v. Koppers Co., 681 A.2d 815 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1996).
· cites it 2× “§ 5526, the fifteen-year statute of limitations for escheat actions, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5528, the twenty-year statute of limitations for instruments in writing under seal, 42 Pa.”
Lower Perkiomen Valley Reg'l Sewer Auth. v. Lower Providence Twp., 21 Pa. D. & C.5th 449 (Pa. Ct. Com. Pl. 2011).
“The attorney-client privilege is statutory, 42 Pa.C.S. §5528: In a civil matter counsel shall not be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made to him by his client, nor shall the client be compelled to disclose the same, unless in either case this…”
42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5528(1): 1 case
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