# Personal injury · North Carolina — Civil statute of limitations by state and type of claim

For Personal injury · North Carolina, limitation period is three years; section is 1-52; how the statute describes it is for any other injury to the person or rights of another, not arising on contract, recorded from its source on 2026-08-25.

- **Type of claim:** Personal injury _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **State:** North Carolina _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Limitation period:** three years _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the statute describes it:** for any other injury to the person or rights of another, not arising on contract _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Section:** 1-52 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 1-52. Three years. Within three years an action - (1) Upon a contract, obligation or liability arising out of a contract, express or implied, except those mentioned in the preceding sections or in G.S. 1-53(1). (1a) Upon the official bond of a public officer. (2) Upon a liability created by statute, either state or federal, unless some other time is mentioned in the statute creating it. (3) For trespass upon real property. When the trespass is a continuing one, the action shall be commenced within three years from the original trespass, and not thereafter. (4) For taking, detaining, converting or injuring any goods or chattels, including action for their specific recovery. (5) For criminal conversation, or for any other injury to the person or rights of another, not arising on contract and not hereafter enumerated, except as provided by G.S. 1-17(d) and (e).

## Source

- https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByArticle/Chapter_1/Article_5.html

Last verified: 2026-08-25. Review by: 2027-08-25.
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