Within the United States, a statute of limitations is typically deemed to be a procedural law, meaning that a state will ordinarily apply its own statute of limitations to any case that is filed within its courts.
[1] States that do not have borrowing statutes may apply their own statutes of limitation to most or all lawsuits filed in their state courts, although at times they may apply an out-of-state limitations period based upon a choice of law analysis.
[4] In some states, the borrowing statute will only be applied if the plaintiff was not a resident of that state at the time the cause of action accrued;[5] in others, it will only apply if the defendant was not a resident.
Some states limit the use of borrowing statutes to specific types of cases, such as breach of contract actions.
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