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Kansas

For Kansas, does payment or acknowledgment revive the clock is A payment or a signed writing restarts the clock; how the statute states the rule is In any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same, shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment or promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby; section is 60-520, recorded from its source on 2026-09-01.

State
Kansas our reading
Does payment or acknowledgment revive the clock
A payment or a signed writing restarts the clock our reading
How the statute states the rule
In any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same, shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment or promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby. verified
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60-520 verified
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What the source says

In any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same, shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment or promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby.

ksrevisor.gov, retrieved 2026-09-01

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Section

60-520. Part payment or acknowledgment of liability.

— all from ksrevisor.gov, retrieved 2026-09-01

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