# Oral contract · Delaware — Civil statute of limitations by state and type of claim

For Oral contract · Delaware, limitation period is 3 years; when the clock starts is from the accruing of the cause of such action; section is § 8106; how the statute describes it is no action based on a promise, recorded from its source on 2026-08-25.

- **Type of claim:** Oral contract _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **State:** Delaware _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Limitation period:** 3 years _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the statute describes it:** no action based on a promise _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **When the clock starts:** from the accruing of the cause of such action _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Section:** § 8106 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> § 8106. Actions subject to 3-year limitation. (a) No action to recover damages for trespass, no action to regain possession of personal chattels, no action to recover damages for the detention of personal chattels, no action to recover a debt not evidenced by a record or by an instrument under seal, no action based on a detailed statement of the mutual demands in the nature of debit and credit between parties arising out of contractual or fiduciary relations, no action based on a promise, no action based on a statute, and no action to recover damages caused by an injury unaccompanied with force or resulting indirectly from the act of the defendant shall be brought after the expiration of 3 years from the accruing of the cause of such action;

## Source

- https://delcode.delaware.gov/title10/c081/index.html

Last verified: 2026-08-25. Review by: 2027-08-25.
Part of [Civil statute of limitations by state and type of claim](https://referencesource.org/state-civil-statute-of-limitations/).