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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 13.16.045

  • action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

No statute of limitation running on a cause of action belonging to a decedent that had not been barred as of the date of death shall apply to bar a cause of action surviving the decedent’s death sooner than four months after death. A cause of action that, but for this section, would have been barred less than four months after death, is barred after four months unless tolled.