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4.12.025 | Action to be brought where defendant resides—Optional venue of actions upon unlawful issuance of check or draft—Residence of corporations—Optional venue of actions against corporations. | (1) An action may be brought in any county in which the defendant resides, or, if there be more than one defendant, where some one of the defendants resides at the time of the commencement of the action. For the purpose of this section, the residence of a corporation defendant shall be deemed to be in any county where ... |
4.12.030 | Grounds authorizing change of venue. | The court may, on motion, in the following cases, change the place of trial when it appears by affidavit, or other satisfactory proof: (1) That the county designated in the complaint is not the proper county; or, (2) That there is reason to believe that an impartial trial cannot be had therein; or, (3) That the conveni... |
4.12.040 | Disqualification of judge, transfer to another department, visiting judge—Change of venue generally, criminal cases. | (1) No judge of a superior court of the state of Washington shall sit to hear or try any action or proceeding if that judge has been disqualified pursuant to RCW 4.12.050 . In such case the presiding judge in judicial districts where there is more than one judge shall forthwith transfer the action to another department... |
4.12.050 | Notice of disqualification. | (1) Any party to or any attorney appearing in any action or proceeding in a superior court may disqualify a judge from hearing the matter, subject to these limitations: (a) Notice of disqualification must be filed and called to the attention of the judge before the judge has made any discretionary ruling in the case. (... |
4.12.060 | To what county venue may be changed—Limitation on number of changes. | If the motion for a change of the place of trial be allowed, the change shall be made to the county where the action ought to have been commenced, if it be for the cause mentioned in RCW 4.12.030 (1), and in other cases to the most convenient county where the cause alleged does not exist. Neither party shall be entitle... |
4.12.070 | Change to newly created county. | Any party in a civil action pending in the superior court in a county out of whose limits a new county, in whole or in part, has been created, may file with the clerk of such superior court an affidavit setting forth that he or she is a resident of such newly created county, and that the venue of such action is transit... |
4.12.080 | Change by stipulation. | Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 4.12.030 all the parties to the action by stipulation in writing or by consent in open court entered in the records may agree that the place of trial be changed to any county of the state, and thereupon the court must order the change agreed upon.
[Code 1881 s 55; 1877 p 13 s 56 ; ... |
4.12.090 | Transmission of record on change of venue—Costs, attorney's fee. | (1) When an order is made transferring an action or proceeding for trial, the clerk of the court must transmit the pleadings and papers therein to the court to which it is transferred and charge a fee as provided in RCW 36.18.016 . The costs and fees thereof and of filing the papers anew must be paid by the party at wh... |
4.12.100 | Transcript of record entries. | The clerk of the court must also transmit with the original papers where an order is made changing the place of trial, a certified transcript of all record entries up to and including the order for such change.
[Code 1881 s 58; 1877 p 13 s 59 ; RRS s 219.] |
4.12.110 | Effect of neglect of moving party. | If such papers be not transmitted to the clerk of the proper court within the time prescribed in the order allowing the change, and the delay be caused by the act or omission of the party procuring the change, the adverse party, on motion to the court or judge thereof, may have the order vacated, and thereafter no othe... |
4.12.120 | Change deemed complete, when. | Upon the filing of the papers with the clerk of the court to which the cause is transferred, the change of venue shall be deemed complete, and thereafter the action shall proceed as though it had been commenced in that court.
[Code 1881 s 57; 1877 p 13 s 58 ; 1869 p 15 s 58 ; 1854 p 135 s 22 ; RRS s 218.] |
4.14.010 | Removal of certain actions from justice court to superior court authorized—Grounds—Joint claims or actions—Exceptions. | Whenever the removal of such action to superior court is required in order to acquire jurisdiction over a third party defendant, who is or may be liable to the defendant for all or part of the judgment and resides outside the county wherein the action was commenced, any civil action which could have been brought in sup... |
4.14.020 | Petition for removal—Contents—Filing—Notice. | (1) A defendant or defendants desiring to remove any civil action from a justice court as authorized by RCW 4.14.010 shall file in the superior court in the county where such action is pending, a verified petition containing a short and plain statement of the facts which entitle him, her, or them to removal together wi... |
4.14.030 | Orders and process upon removal—Remand of cases improvidently removed. | In any case removed from justice court under the provisions of this chapter, the superior court may issue all necessary orders and process to bring before it all proper parties whether served by process issued by the justice court or otherwise. If at any time before final judgment it appears that the case was removed i... |
4.14.040 | Attached property—Custody. | Whenever any action is removed from a justice court to a superior court under the provisions of this chapter, any attachment or sequestration of the property of the defendant in such action in the justice court shall remain in the custody of the sheriff to answer the final judgment or decree in the same manner as would... |
4.16.005 | Commencement of actions. | Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and except when in special cases a different limitation is prescribed by a statute not contained in this chapter, actions can only be commenced within the periods provided in this chapter after the cause of action has accrued.
[ 1989 c 14 s 1 .] |
4.16.020 | Actions to be commenced within ten years—Exception. | The period prescribed for the commencement of actions shall be as follows: Within ten years: (1) For actions for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof; and no action shall be maintained for such recovery unless it appears that the plaintiff, his or her ancestor, predecessor or gra... |
4.16.030 | Actions to foreclose special assessments. | An action to collect any special assessment for local improvements of any kind against any person, corporation or property whatsoever, or to enforce any lien for any special assessment for local improvements of any kind, whether said action be brought by a municipal corporation or by the holder of any delinquency certi... |
4.16.040 | Actions limited to six years. | The following actions shall be commenced within six years: (1) An action upon a contract in writing, or liability express or implied arising out of a written agreement, except as provided for in RCW 64.04.007 (2). (2) An action upon an account receivable. For purposes of this section, an account receivable is any oblig... |
4.16.050 | Action on irrigation or drainage district warrant. | Action to enforce any right arising out of the issuance or ownership of any warrant of an irrigation or drainage district organized under the laws of this state, must be brought within six years from and after the date of the issuance of such warrant.
[ 1931 c 75 s 1 ; RRS s 157-1.]
Reviser's note: Transitional proviso... |
4.16.060 | Action on irrigation district bonds. | No action against any irrigation district organized under the laws of this state, or its officers, to enforce any right or claim arising out of the issuance or ownership of any negotiable bond, payable on a day certain, of the irrigation district, where such district is under contract with the United States, or any dep... |
4.16.070 | Actions limited to five years. | No action for the recovery of any real estate sold by an executor or administrator under the laws of this state shall be maintained by any heir or other person claiming under the deceased, unless it is commenced within five years next after the sale, and no action for any estate sold by a guardian shall be maintained b... |
4.16.080 | Actions limited to three years. | The following actions shall be commenced within three years: (1) An action for waste or trespass upon real property; (2) An action for taking, detaining, or injuring personal property, including an action for the specific recovery thereof, or for any other injury to the person or rights of another not hereinafter enume... |
4.16.090 | Action to cancel tax deed. | Actions to set aside or cancel any deed heretofore or hereafter issued by any county treasurer after and upon the sale of lands for general, state, county or municipal taxes, or upon the sale of lands acquired by any county on foreclosure of general, state, county or municipal taxes, or for the recovery of any lands so... |
4.16.100 | Actions limited to two years. | Within two years: (1) An action for libel, slander, assault, assault and battery, or false imprisonment. (2) An action upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the state.
[Code 1881 s 29; 1877 p 8 s 29 ; 1869 p 9 s 29 ; 1854 p 363 s 5 ; RRS s 160.]
Limitation of action for recovery of transportation charges: RCW 8... |
4.16.110 | Actions limited to one year. | Within one year an action shall be brought against a sheriff, or other officer for the escape of a prisoner arrested or imprisoned on civil process.
[ 1985 c 11 s 2 . Prior: 1984 c 149 s 1 ; Code 1881 s 30; 1877 p 8 s 30 ; 1869 p 9 s 30 ; 1854 p 364 s 5 ; RRS s 161.]
Reviser's note: 1985 c 11 reenacted RCW 4.16.110 and... |
4.16.115 | Special provisions for action on penalty. | An action upon a statute for a penalty given in whole or in part to the person who may prosecute for the same, shall be commenced within three years [one year] after the commission of the offense; and if the action be not commenced within one year by a private party, it may be commenced within two years after the commi... |
4.16.130 | Action for relief not otherwise provided for. | An action for relief not hereinbefore provided for, shall be commenced within two years after the cause of action shall have accrued.
[Code 1881 s 33; 1877 p 9 s 32 ; 1854 p 364 s 7 ; RRS s 165.]
Limitation of action to recover taxes paid: RCW 84.68.060 . |
4.16.150 | Action on mutual open accounts. | In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual open and current account, where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side, but whenever a period of more than one year shall h... |
4.16.160 | Application of limitations to actions by state, counties, municipalities. | The limitations prescribed in this chapter shall apply to actions brought in the name or for the benefit of any county or other municipality or quasimunicipality of the state, in the same manner as to actions brought by private parties: PROVIDED, That, except as provided in RCW 4.16.310 , there shall be no limitation t... |
4.16.170 | Tolling of statute—Actions, when deemed commenced or not commenced. | For the purpose of tolling any statute of limitations an action shall be deemed commenced when the complaint is filed or summons is served whichever occurs first. If service has not been had on the defendant prior to the filing of the complaint, the plaintiff shall cause one or more of the defendants to be served perso... |
4.16.180 | Statute tolled by absence from state, concealment, etc. | If the cause of action shall accrue against any person who is a nonresident of this state, or who is a resident of this state and shall be out of the state, or concealed therein, such action may be commenced within the terms herein respectively limited after the coming, or return of such person into the state, or after... |
4.16.190 | Statute tolled by personal disability. | Unless otherwise provided in this section, if a person entitled to bring an action mentioned in this chapter, except for a penalty or forfeiture, or against a sheriff or other officer, for an escape, be at the time the cause of action accrued either under the age of eighteen years, or incompetent or disabled to such a ... |
4.16.200 | Statute tolled by death. | Limitations on actions against a person who dies before the expiration of the time otherwise limited for commencement thereof are as set forth in chapter 11.40 RCW. Subject to the limitations on claims against a deceased person under chapter 11.40 RCW, if a person entitled to bring an action dies before the expiration ... |
4.16.210 | Statute tolled—By war as to enemy alien. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2632.SL ) ***
When a person shall be an alien subject or a citizen of a country at war with the United States, the time of the continuance of the war shall not be a part of the period limited for the commencement of the action.
[1941 c 174 s 1, part; Code 1881 s 39; 1854 p 365 s 13 ; Rem. Su... |
4.16.220 | Statute tolled—As to person in military service of United States. | When the enforcement of civil liabilities against a person in the military service of the United States has been suspended by operation of law, the period of such suspension shall not be a part of the period limited for the commencement of the action.
[1941 c 174 s 1, part; Code 1881 s 39; 1854 p 365 s 13 ; Rem. Supp. ... |
4.16.230 | Statute tolled by judicial proceedings. | When the commencement of an action is stayed by injunction or a statutory prohibition, the time of the continuance of the injunction or prohibition shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.
[Code 1881 s 40; 1877 p 10 s 41 ; 1854 p 365 s 14 ; RRS s 172.] |
4.16.240 | Effect of reversal of judgment on appeal. | If an action shall be commenced within the time prescribed therefor, and a judgment therein for the plaintiff be reversed on error or appeal, the plaintiff, or if he or she dies and the cause of action survives, his or her heirs or representatives may commence a new action within one year after reversal.
[ 2011 c 336 s... |
4.16.250 | Disability must exist when right of action accrued. | No person shall avail himself or herself of a disability unless it existed when his or her right of action accrued.
[ 2011 c 336 s 87 ; Code 1881 s 42; 1877 p 10 s 43 ; 1854 p 365 s 16 ; RRS s 174.] |
4.16.260 | Coexisting disabilities. | When two or more disabilities shall coexist at the time the right of action accrues, the limitation shall not attach until they all be removed.
[Code 1881 s 43; 1877 p 10 s 44 ; 1854 p 365 s 17 ; RRS s 175.] |
4.16.270 | Effect of partial payment. | When any payment has been or shall be made upon any existing contract prior to its applicable limitation period having expired, whether the contract is a bill of exchange, promissory note, bond, or other evidence of indebtedness, if the payment is made after it is due, the limitation period shall restart from the time ... |
4.16.280 | New promise must be in writing. | No acknowledgment or promise shall be sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take the case out of the operation of this chapter, unless it is contained in some writing signed by the party to be charged thereby; except, an acknowledgment or promise made after the limitation period has expired sha... |
4.16.290 | Foreign statutes of limitation, how applied. | When the cause of action has arisen in another state, territory or country between nonresidents of this state, and by the laws of the state, territory or country where the action arose, an action cannot be maintained thereon by reason of the lapse of time, no action shall be maintained thereon in this state.
[Code 1881... |
4.16.300 | Actions or claims arising from construction, alteration, repair, design, planning, survey, engineering, etc., of improvements upon real property. | RCW 4.16.300 through 4.16.320 shall apply to all claims or causes of action of any kind against any person, arising from such person having constructed, altered or repaired any improvement upon real property, or having performed or furnished any design, planning, surveying, architectural or construction or engineering ... |
4.16.310 | Actions or claims arising from construction, alteration, repair, design, planning, survey, engineering, etc., of improvements upon real property—Accrual and limitations of actions or claims. | All claims or causes of action as set forth in RCW 4.16.300 shall accrue, and the applicable statute of limitation shall begin to run only during the period within six years after substantial completion of construction, or during the period within six years after the termination of the services enumerated in RCW 4.16.3... |
4.16.320 | Actions or claims arising from construction, alteration, repair, design, planning, survey, engineering, etc., of improvements upon real property—Construction. | Nothing in RCW 4.16.300 through 4.16.320 shall be construed as extending the period now permitted by law for bringing any kind of action.
[ 1967 c 75 s 3 .] |
4.16.325 | Actions or claims arising from construction defect claims—Statute tolled. | If a written notice of claim is served under RCW 64.50.020 within the time prescribed for the filing of an action under this chapter, the statutes of limitations for construction-related claims are tolled until sixty days after the period of time during which the filing of an action is barred under RCW 64.50.020 .
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4.16.326 | Actions or claims for construction defect claims—Comparative fault. | (1) Persons engaged in any activity defined in RCW 4.16.300 may be excused, in whole or in part, from any obligation, damage, loss, or liability for those defined activities under the principles of comparative fault for the following affirmative defenses: (a) To the extent it is caused by an unforeseen act of nature th... |
4.16.327 | Actions or claims for construction defects—Emergency repairs. | Any person, including but not limited to contractors, builders, tradespeople, and other providers of construction, remodel, or repair services, who, without compensation or the expectation of compensation, renders emergency repairs to any structure at the scene of any accident, disaster, or emergency that has caused or... |
4.16.340 | Actions based on childhood sexual abuse. | (1) All claims or causes of action based on intentional conduct brought by any person for recovery of damages for injury suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse that occurred before June 6, 2024, shall be commenced within the later of the following periods: (a) Within three years of the act alleged to have cause... |
4.16.350 | Action for injuries resulting from health care or related services—Physicians, dentists, nurses, etc.—Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, etc. | Any civil action for damages for injury occurring as a result of health care which is provided after June 25, 1976, against: (1) A person licensed by this state to provide health care or related services, including, but not limited to, a physician, osteopathic physician, dentist, nurse, optometrist, podiatric physician... |
4.16.360 | Application of chapter to parentage action. | This chapter does not limit the time in which an action for determination of parentage may be brought under chapter 26.26A or 26.26B RCW.
[ 2019 c 46 s 5001 ; 1983 1st ex.s. c 41 s 13 .]
Severability — 1983 1st ex.s. c 41: See note following RCW 26.09.060 . |
4.16.370 | Actions against personal representative or trustee for breach of fiduciary duties—Statute of limitations. | The statute of limitations for actions against a personal representative or trustee for breach of fiduciary duties is as set forth in RCW 11.96A.070 .
[ 1999 c 42 s 602 ; 1985 c 11 s 3 . Prior: 1984 c 149 s 2 .]
Effective date — 1999 c 42: See RCW 11.96A.902 .
Short title — Application — 1985 c 30: See RCW 11.02.900 an... |
4.18.010 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Claim" means a right of action that may be asserted in a civil action or proceeding and includes a right of action created by statute. (2) "State" means a state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a foreig... |
4.18.020 | Conflict of laws—Limitation periods. | (1) Except as provided by RCW 4.18.040 , if a claim is substantively based: (a) Upon the law of one other state, the limitation period of that state applies; or (b) Upon the law of more than one state, the limitation period of one of those states, chosen by the law of conflict of laws of this state, applies. (2) The li... |
4.18.030 | Rules of law applicable to computation of limitation period. | If the statute of limitations of another state applies to the assertion of a claim in this state, the other state's relevant statutes and other rules of law governing tolling and accrual apply in computing the limitation period, but its statutes and other rules of law governing conflict of laws do not apply.
[ 1983 c 1... |
4.18.040 | Application of limitation period of other state—Unfairness. | If the court determines that the limitation period of another state applicable under RCW 4.18.020 and 4.18.030 is substantially different from the limitation period of this state and has not afforded a fair opportunity to sue upon, or imposes an unfair burden in defending against, the claim, the limitation period of th... |
4.18.900 | Short title. | This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Conflict of Laws — Limitations Act.
[ 1983 c 152 s 7 .] |
4.18.901 | Application of chapter—Existing and future claims. | This chapter applies to claims: (1) Accruing after July 24, 1983; or (2) Asserted in a civil action or proceeding more than one year after July 24, 1983, but it does not revive a claim barred before July 24, 1983.
[ 1983 c 152 s 5 .] |
4.18.902 | Uniformity of application and construction of chapter. | This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.
[ 1983 c 152 s 6 .] |
4.20.005 | Wrongful death—Application of terms. | Words in RCW 4.20.010 , 4.20.020 , and 4.20.030 denoting the singular shall be understood as belonging to a plurality of persons or things. The masculine shall apply also to the feminine, and the word person shall also apply to bodies politic and corporate.
[ 1917 c 123 s 3 ; RRS s 183-2. Formerly RCW 4.20.010 , part.] |
4.20.010 | Wrongful death—Right of action. | (1) When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another person, his or her personal representative may maintain an action against the person causing the death for the economic and noneconomic damages sustained by the beneficiaries listed in RCW 4.20.020 as a result of the decedent's... |
4.20.020 | Wrongful death—Beneficiaries of action. | Every action under RCW 4.20.010 shall be for the benefit of the spouse, state registered domestic partner, child or children, including stepchildren, of the person whose death shall have been so caused. If there is no spouse, state registered domestic partner, or such child or children, such action may be maintained fo... |
4.20.030 | Workers' compensation act not affected. | RCW 4.20.005 , 4.20.010 , and 4.20.020 shall not repeal or supersede chapter 74 of the Laws of 1911 [Title 51 RCW] and acts amendatory thereof, or any part thereof.
[ 1917 c 123 s 5 ; RRS s 183-3.] |
4.20.046 | Survival of actions. | (1) All causes of action by a person or persons against another person or persons shall survive to the personal representatives of the former and against the personal representatives of the latter, whether such actions arise on contract or otherwise, and whether or not such actions would have survived at the common law... |
4.20.050 | Action not abated by death or disability if it survives—Substitution. | No action shall abate by the death, marriage, or other disability of the party, or by the transfer of any interest therein, if the cause of action survives or continues; but the court may at any time within one year thereafter, on motion, allow the action to be continued by or against his or her representatives or succ... |
4.20.060 | Action for personal injury survives. | (1) No action for a personal injury to any person occasioning death shall abate, nor shall such right of action terminate, by reason of such death, if such person has a surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, or child living, including stepchildren, or if leaving no surviving spouse, state registered domes... |
4.22.005 | Effect of contributory fault. | In an action based on fault seeking to recover damages for injury or death to person or harm to property, any contributory fault chargeable to the claimant diminishes proportionately the amount awarded as compensatory damages for an injury attributable to the claimant's contributory fault, but does not bar recovery. Th... |
4.22.015 | "Fault" defined. | "Fault" includes acts or omissions, including misuse of a product, that are in any measure negligent or reckless toward the person or property of the actor or others, or that subject a person to strict tort liability or liability on a product liability claim. The term also includes breach of warranty, unreasonable assu... |
4.22.020 | Imputation of contributory fault—Spouse, domestic partner, or minor child of spouse or domestic partner—Wrongful death actions. | The contributory fault of one spouse or one domestic partner shall not be imputed to the other spouse or other domestic partner or the minor child of the spouse or domestic partner to diminish recovery in an action by the other spouse or other domestic partner or the minor child of the spouse or other domestic partner,... |
4.22.030 | Nature of liability. | Except as otherwise provided in RCW 4.22.070 , if more than one person is liable to a claimant on an indivisible claim for the same injury, death or harm, the liability of such persons shall be joint and several.
[ 1986 c 305 s 402 ; 1981 c 27 s 11 .]
Preamble — Report to legislature — Applicability — Severability — 19... |
4.22.040 | Right of contribution—Indemnity. | (1) A right of contribution exists between or among two or more persons who are jointly and severally liable upon the same indivisible claim for the same injury, death or harm, whether or not judgment has been recovered against all or any of them. It may be enforced either in the original action or by a separate action... |
4.22.050 | Enforcement of contribution. | (1) If the comparative fault of the parties to a claim for contribution has been established previously by the court in the original action, a party paying more than that party's equitable share of the obligation, upon motion, may recover judgment for contribution. (2) If the comparative fault of the parties to the cla... |
4.22.060 | Effect of settlement agreement. | (1) A party prior to entering into a release, covenant not to sue, covenant not to enforce judgment, or similar agreement with a claimant shall give five days' written notice of such intent to all other parties and the court. The court may for good cause authorize a shorter notice period. The notice shall contain a cop... |
4.22.070 | Percentage of fault—Determination—Exception—Limitations. | (1) In all actions involving fault of more than one entity, the trier of fact shall determine the percentage of the total fault which is attributable to every entity which caused the claimant's damages except entities immune from liability to the claimant under Title 51 RCW. The sum of the percentages of the total faul... |
4.22.900 | Effective date—1973 1st ex.s. c 138. | This act takes effect as of 12:01 a.m. on April 1, 1974.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 138 s 3 .] |
4.22.920 | Applicability—1981 c 27. | (1) Chapter 27, Laws of 1981 shall apply to all claims arising on or after July 26, 1981. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, RCW 4.22.040 , 4.22.050 , and 4.22.060 shall also apply to all actions in which trial on the underlying action has not taken place prior to July 26, 1981, except that there is no... |
4.22.925 | Applicability—1981 c 27 s 17. | In accordance with section 15(1), chapter 27, Laws of 1981, the repeal of RCW 4.22.010 by section 17, chapter 27, Laws of 1981 applies only to claims arising on or after July 26, 1981. RCW 4.22.010 shall continue to apply to claims arising prior to July 26, 1981.
[ 1982 c 100 s 3 .]
Severability — 1982 c 100: See note ... |
4.24.005 | Tort actions—Attorneys' fees—Determination of reasonableness. | Any party charged with the payment of attorney's fees in any tort action may petition the court not later than forty-five days of receipt of a final billing or accounting for a determination of the reasonableness of that party's attorneys' fees. The court shall make such a determination and shall take into consideratio... |
4.24.010 | Action for injury or death of child. | (1) A parent or legal guardian who has regularly contributed to the support of his or her minor child, and a parent or legal guardian who has had significant involvement in the life of an adult child, may maintain or join as a party an action as plaintiff for the injury or death of the child. For purposes of this secti... |
4.24.020 | Action by parent for seduction of child. | A father or mother, may maintain an action as plaintiff for the seduction of a child, and the guardian for the seduction of a ward, though the child or the ward be not living with or in the service of the plaintiff at the time of the seduction or afterwards, and there be no loss of service.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 154 s 5 ;... |
4.24.040 | Action for negligently permitting fire to spread. | Except as provided in RCW 76.04.760 , if any person shall for any lawful purpose kindle a fire upon his or her own land, he or she shall do it at such time and in such manner, and shall take such care of it to prevent it from spreading and doing damage to other persons' property, as a prudent and careful person would d... |
4.24.050 | Kindling of fires by persons driving lumber. | Persons engaged in driving lumber upon any waters or streams of this state, may kindle fires when necessary for the purposes in which they are engaged, but shall be bound to use the utmost caution to prevent the same from spreading and doing damage; and if they fail so to do, they shall be subject to all liabilities an... |
4.24.060 | Application of common law. | The common law right to an action for damages done by fires, is not taken away or diminished by RCW 4.24.040 , 4.24.050 , and 4.24.060 . However: (1) Any person availing himself or herself of the provisions of RCW 4.24.040 , shall be barred of his or her action at common law for the damage so sued for; (2) No action sh... |
4.24.070 | Recovery of money lost at gambling. | All persons losing money or anything of value at or on any illegal gambling games shall have a cause of action to recover from the dealer or player winning, or from the proprietor for whose benefit such game was played or dealt, or such money or things of value won, the amount of the money or the value of the thing so ... |
4.24.080 | Action to recover leased premises used for gambling. | It shall be lawful for any person letting or renting any house, room, shop, or other building whatsoever, or any boat, booth, garden, or other place, which shall, at any time, be used by the lessee or occupant thereof, or any other person, with his or her knowledge or consent, for gambling purposes, upon discovery ther... |
4.24.090 | Validity of evidence of gambling debt. | All notes, bills, bonds, mortgages, or other securities, or other conveyances, the consideration for which shall be money, or other things of value, won by playing at any unlawful game, shall be void and of no effect, as between the parties thereto and all other persons, except holders in good faith, without notice of ... |
4.24.115 | Validity of agreement to indemnify against liability for negligence relative to construction, alteration, improvement, etc., of structure or improvement attached to real estate or relative to a motor carrier transportation contract. | (1) A covenant, promise, agreement, or understanding in, or in connection with or collateral to, a contract or agreement relative to the construction, alteration, repair, addition to, subtraction from, improvement to, or maintenance of, any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, dev... |
4.24.130 | Action for change of name—Fees. | (1) Any person desiring a change of the person's name or that of the person's child or of an individual subject to guardianship for whom the person has been appointed as guardian, may apply therefor to the district court of any judicial district in the state, by petition setting forth the desire for such change; thereu... |
4.24.140 | Action by another state to enforce tax liability. | The courts of the state shall recognize and enforce the liability for taxes lawfully imposed by the laws of any other state which extends a like comity in respect to the liability for taxes lawfully imposed by the laws of this state and the officials of such state are hereby authorized to bring an action in all the cou... |
4.24.141 | Action by another state to enforce tax liability—"Taxes" defined. | The term "taxes" as used in RCW 4.24.140 shall include: (1) Any and all tax assessments lawfully made whether they be based upon a return or other disclosure of the taxpayer, upon information and belief of the taxing authority, or otherwise; (2) Any and all penalties lawfully imposed pursuant to a tax statute; (3) Inte... |
4.24.150 | Action for fines or forfeitures. | Fines and forfeitures may be recovered by an action at law in the name of the officer or person to whom they are by law given, or in the name of the officer or person who by law is authorized to prosecute for them.
[Code 1881 s 657; 1869 p 153 s 597 ; RRS s 963.]
Limitation of actions: Chapter 4.16 RCW. |
4.24.160 | Action for penalty—Amount of recovery. | When an action shall be commenced for a penalty, which by law is not to exceed a certain amount, the action may be commenced for that amount, and if judgment be given for the plaintiff, it may be for such amount or less, in the discretion of the court, in proportion to the offense.
[Code 1881 s 658; 1869 p 153 s 598 ; ... |
4.24.170 | Judgment for penalty or forfeiture—Effect of collusion. | A recovery of a judgment for a penalty or forfeiture by collusion between the plaintiff and defendant, with intent to save the defendant wholly or partially from the consequences contemplated by law, in case when the penalty or forfeiture is given wholly or partly to the person who prosecutes, shall not bar the recover... |
4.24.180 | Disposition of fines, fees, penalties and forfeitures—Venue. | Fines and forfeitures not specially granted or otherwise appropriated by law, when recovered, shall be paid into the school fund of the proper county: PROVIDED, That all fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties collected or assessed by a district court because of the violation of a state law shall be remitted as provided... |
4.24.190 | Action against parent for willful injury to person or property by minor—Monetary limitation—Common law liability preserved. | The parent or parents of any minor child under the age of eighteen years who is living with the parent or parents and who shall willfully or maliciously destroy or deface property, real or personal or mixed, or who shall willfully and maliciously inflict personal injury on another person, shall be liable to the owner o... |
4.24.200 | Liability of owners or others in possession of land and water areas for injuries to recreation users—Purpose. | The purpose of RCW 4.24.200 and 4.24.210 is to encourage owners or others in lawful possession and control of land and water areas or channels to make them available to the public for recreational purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon and toward persons who may be injured or otherwise dam... |
4.24.210 | Liability of owners or others in possession of land and water areas for injuries to recreation users—Known dangerous artificial latent conditions—Other limitations. | (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) or (4) of this section, any public or private landowners, hydroelectric project owners, or others in lawful possession and control of any lands whether designated resource, rural, or urban, or water areas or channels and lands adjacent to such areas or channels, who al... |
4.24.220 | Action for being detained on mercantile establishment premises for investigation—"Reasonable grounds" as defense. | In any civil action brought by reason of any person having been detained on or in the immediate vicinity of the premises of a mercantile establishment for the purpose of investigation or questioning as to the ownership of any merchandise, it shall be a defense of such action that the person was detained in a reasonable... |
4.24.230 | Liability for conversion of goods or merchandise from store or mercantile establishment, leaving restaurant or hotel or motel without paying—Adults, minors—Parents, guardians—Notice. | (1) An adult or emancipated minor who takes possession of any goods, wares, or merchandise displayed or offered for sale by any wholesale or retail store or other mercantile establishment without the consent of the owner or seller, and with the intention of converting such goods, wares, or merchandise to his or her own... |
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