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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 15

Limitation in case of successive conversions and extinction of title of owner of converted goods.

15.(1) Where any cause of action in respect of the conversion or wrongful
detention of a chattel has accrued to any person and, before he recovers
possession of the chattel, a further conversion or wrongful detention takes
place, subject to section thirty, no action shall be brought in respect of the
further conversion or wrongful detention after the expiration of six years
from the accrual of the cause of action in respect of the original conversion
or wrongful detention.

(2) Where any such cause of action has accrued to any person and the period
prescribed for bringing that action and for bringing any action in respect of
such a further conversion or wrongful detention as aforesaid has expired and
he has not during that period recovered possession of the chattel, subject to
section thirty, the title of that person to the chattel shall be extinguished.

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