No right of action for personal injury or for injury to real or personal property shall cease or die with the person injuring or injured, except actions for slander, libel, criminal conversation, and so much of the action for malicious prosecution as is intended to recover for the personal injury. For any other injury an action may be brought or revived by the personal representative, or against the personal representative, heir or devisee, in the same manner as causes of action founded on contract.
Effective: June 19, 1952

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 411.140

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.

History: Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 147, sec. 1, effective June 19, 1952. — Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 10.

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