If someone owes money on a contract and the time limit to sue has passed, a verbal promise or admission does not restart that time limit. Only a written promise, signed by the person who owes the debt, can bring the case back to life.
516.320. Actions , only by written promise. — In actions founded on any contract, no or promise hereafter made shall be evidence of a new or , whereby to take any case out of the operation of the of sections 516.100 to 516.370, or any of the thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise be made or contained by or in some writing by the thereby.
(RSMo 1939 § 1035)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 883; 1919 § 1338; 1909 § 1909
(2003) applicable to legal is not subject to Kansas during of of claim by Kansas professional malpractice screening panel. Eichenwald v. Small, 321 F.3d 733 (8th Cir.).
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