# California — Does paying old debt restart the statute of limitations, by state

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.

- **State:** California _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Does payment or acknowledgment revive the clock:** A signed writing restarts the clock; payment alone does not revive _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **How the statute states the rule:** no such payment of itself shall revive a cause of action once barred _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Section:** CCP 360 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## 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.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Section

> California Code, CCP 360.

## Source

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

Last verified: 2026-09-01. Review by: 2027-09-01.
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