TITLE 9
Courts and Civil ProcedureProcedure Generally
CHAPTER 9-1
Causes of Action
SECTION 9-1-20
§ 9-1-20 Time of accrual of concealed
cause of action.
If any person, liable to an action by another, shall fraudulently, by actual
misrepresentation, conceal from him or her the existence of the cause of
action, the cause of action shall be deemed to accrue against the person so
liable at the time when the person entitled to sue thereon shall first discover
its existence.
History of Section.
(C.P.A. 1905, § 254; G.L. 1909, ch. 284, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 334,
§ 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 510, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 9-1-20.)