California

For California, does payment or acknowledgment revive the clock is A signed writing restarts the clock; payment alone does not revive; how the statute states the rule is no such payment of itself shall revive a cause of action once barred; section is CCP 360, recorded from its source on 2026-09-01.

Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.

What the source says

No acknowledgment or promise is sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, by which to take the case out of the operation of this title, unless the same is contained in some writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby, provided that any payment on account of principal or interest due on a promissory note made by the party to be charged shall be deemed a sufficient acknowledgment or promise of a continuing contract to stop, from time to time as any such payment is made, the running of the time within which an action may be commenced upon the principal sum or upon any installment of principal or interest due on such note, and to start the running of a new period of time, but no such payment of itself shall revive a cause of action once barred.

— leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, retrieved 2026-09-01

Where each value comes from

The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.

— all from leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, retrieved 2026-09-01

Source

• leginfo.legislature.ca.govhttps://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=360.&lawCode=CCP

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