Legal Term: ACTIO NON ACCREVIT INFRA SEX ANNOS

Definition: The name of a plea to the statute of limitations when the defendant insists that the plaintiff"s action has not accrued within six years. It differs from non assumpsit in this: non assumpsit is the proper plea to an action on a simple contract, when the action accrues on the promise but when it does not accrue on the promise but subsequently to it, the proper plea is actio non accrevit, &c. Lawes, Pl. in Ass. 733, 5 Binn. 200, 203, 2 Salk. 422, 1 Saund. Rep. 83 n. 2, 2 Saund, 63, b, 1 Sell. N.P. 121.

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