1. c. 16), sometimes called the Statute of Limitations 1623, was an Act of the Parliament of England.

c. 3), the Statute of Frauds Amendment Act 1828 (9 Geo.

[8][9] The Limitation Act 1623[10] also applied to the personal remedy on a simple contract debt which was charged on land, where there was no convenient way to pay;[11] to a simple contract debt which was recited in a deed, unless there was in the deed an express or implied contract to pay it;[12] to a warrant of attorney to confess judgment for the amount of a simple contract debt;[13] to an action for mesne profits;[14] to an action against the equitable assignee of leaseholds in possession, grounded on his liability to perform the covenants in the lease;[15] to a set-off or counterclaim;[16] to an action founded on a foreign judgment;[17] and to an Admiralty action for seamen's wages.

7. c. 69) and the action referred to in section 26[21] of the Copyhold Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict.

c. 65)[22][23] The Limitation Act 1623 applied to a claim against an executor personally founded on a devastavit[24] and to proceedings to enforce the statutory right which simple contract creditors had[25] against the real estate of their deceased debtors.