224. There are various minute provisions in the savings1, in favor of persons under age, insane, beyond seas, imprisoned2, and of femes covert3.
225. When the defendant4 is beyond seas at the time any personal action accrues5, the plaintiff may sue, after his return, within such times as is limited for bringing such action. Act of 1712, s. 6.
226. Tennessee. 1. As to lands. The act of Nov. 16, 1819, c. 28, 2 Scott, 482, enacts6 in substance: l. That any persons, their heirs or assigns, who shall, at the passing of the act, or at any time after, have had seven years possession of any lands, tenements7, or hereditaments, which have been granted by this state, or the state of North Carolina, holding or claiming the same under a deed or deeds of conveyance8, devise, grant, or other assurance, purporting9 to convey an estate in fee simple, and no claim by suit in law or equity10 effectually prosecuted11 shall have been set up, or made to said land, c., within the aforesaid time, in that case, the persons, or their heirs or assigns, so holding possession, shall be entitled to keep and hold in possession, such quantity of land as shall be specified12 and described in his or their deed, of conveyance, devise, grant, or other assurance, as aforesaid, in preference to and against all and all manner of persons whatsoever13; and any persons or their heirs, who shall neglect or have neglected, for the said term of seven years, to avail themselves of any title legal or equitable14 which they may have had to any lands, c., by suit in law or equity, effectually prosecuted against the persons in possession, shall be for ever barred; and the persons so holding, their heirs. or assigns, for the term aforesaid, shall have an indefeasible title in fee simple to such lands. See 3 Am. Jur. 255.
227. - 2. That no persons, or their heirs, shall maintain any action in law or equity for any lands, c., but within seven years next after his, her, or their right to commence, have, or maintain such suit, shall have come, fallen, or accrued15; and that all suits in law or equity shall be commenced and sued within seven years next after the title or cause of action accrued or fallen, and at no time after the said seven years shall have passed.
228. Persons who, when title first accrued, were within twenty-one years of age, femes covert, non compos mentis, imprisoned, or beyond the limits of the United States, or the territories thereof, may bring their action at any time, so as such suit is commenced within three years next after his, her, or their respective disabilities or death, and not after; and it is further provided, that in the construction of the savings, no cumulative16 disability shall prevent the bar.
229. - 3. That if, in any of the said actions or suits, judgment17 is given for the plaintiff and is reversed for error, or verdict pass for the plain-tiff, and upon matter alleged18 in arrest of judgment, the judgment be given against the plaintiff, that he take nothing, c.; or, if the action be commenced by original writ19, and the defendant cannot be legally attached, or served with process, in such case the plaintiff, his heirs, executors, or administrators20, as the case is, may commence a new action, from time to time, within a year after such judgment reversed or given against the plaintiff, or until the defendant can be attached, or served with process, so as to compel him, her, or them to appear and answer.
